KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN THE LUŽNICA REGION

Abstract

The paper offers an analysis of the kinship terminology for the relations by blood or marriage in the Lužnica region compiled in Recnik govora Lužnice (The Dictionary of the Lužnica Dialect, 2018) by Lj. Ciric. Along with a lexico-semantic analysis of about one hundred lexemes excerpted from the dictionary, some linguistic and etymological notes are also provided. The objective is to demonstrate that in collecting dialect-specific lexemes systematic lexical Recnik govora Lužnice inventorying using questionnaires enables an almost perfect reconstruction of the particular terminological system of a dialect.