Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje (Jan 2011)
Brother’s son in the Croatian language
Abstract
The paper is a detailed terminological description of vocabulary concerning family relations. It describes the terms for ‘brother’s son’ in three components of the Croatian language: dialectological data, which is analysed, described and mapped; lexicographical data, through a diachronic consideration of grammars from the 17th century up to modern dictionaries of the Croatian standard language; and the online corpus of literary works in the Croatian language. Several terms were found: sinovac, bratan, bratanac, bratanić, braten, bratić, nećak, neput, nevodo. The paper presents the wealth of Croatian lexical heritage and provides a cartographic display of the areal distribution of lexemes within the Croatian linguistic area.
