Idioms with the Component HEAD in Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Macedonian in Comparison

Authors

  • Milote Sadiku Universität Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Philologische Fakultät, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur
  • Vjosa Hamiti Universität Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Philologische Fakultät, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur

Keywords:

KOPF-Phraseme, Balkanologie, kontrativ

Abstract

Idioms featuring names of body parts belong to the oldest vocabulary of all languages and are abundantly represented in every language. Idioms with the component HEAD are among the most numerous and common. The aim of the present article is to contrast idioms with the component HEAD in Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Macedonian. Firstly, we have investigated whether the phraseology of these West-Balkan languages has common typological features, since there is an intense cultural convergence in the Balkans because of centuries of reciprocity between different peoples, languages, cultures and religions. Secondly, idioms with the component HEAD have been extracted from phraseological dictionaries of the respective languages. The present paper seeks to identify semantic features of the extracted HEAD idioms in the respective languages and to compare these with each other. The semantic features of the HEAD idioms in these languages were identified pursuant to the dictionaries of Schemann (2012), Hessky & Ettinger (1997) and Weinberger (2012).

Author Biographies

Milote Sadiku, Universität Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Philologische Fakultät, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur

Oktober 2012 Promotion, Uni Prishtina; Seit Juli 2018 Assoziierte Professur, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Uni Prishtina

Vjosa Hamiti, Universität Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Philologische Fakultät, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur

Juni 2014 Promotion, Uni Wien; Seit Juli 2016 Assistenz Professur, Abteilung für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Uni Prishtina

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Published

2021-12-21

How to Cite

Sadiku, M., & Hamiti, V. (2021). Idioms with the Component HEAD in Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Macedonian in Comparison. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 57(1). Retrieved from https://zeitschrift-fuer-balkanologie.de/index.php/zfb/article/view/577

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Vol. 57 No. 1 (2021)

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