Pregled raziskav skladenjskih posebnosti govorjene slovenščine

slovenian

2025

grammar   Slovenian language   spoken language   syntax

ZRC SAZU
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

This study provides a comprehensive overview of literature on syntactic characteristics of spoken Slovene, culminating in the first exhaustive inventory of speech-specific syntactic phenomena in Slovene. Our findings reveal a notable surge in research addressing this topic within various domains of Slovene linguistics, with only a partial overlap in the sets of syntactic features considered. To bridge this gap, this study introduces a consolidated inventory of speech-specific syntactic idiosyncrasies identified thus far, which demonstrates that these peculiarities span all levels of syntactic description. These include the most structurally salient or frequently occurring phenomena, such as self-repairs, ellipsis and atypical word order, as well as numerous other grammatical peculiarities related to spontaneous speech and its analysis. Our review thus highlights the imperative for continued research in this area, but also identifies three significant limitations of its current state: excessive focus on identifying deviations from the norms of the written language, highly heterogeneous terminology, and lack of large-scale corpus-linguistic research.

23.02.2026