Slovenski jezik Slovene Linguistic Studies

Prispevek odpira vprašanje določanja neke vrste pomensko-izraznih primitivov v slovenščini – jezikovnih enot, s katerimi lahko pomensko in izrazno (tj. slovarsko) razlagamo vse oz. večino besedja v določenem jeziku. Obravnava s pomensko-izraznimi primitivi povezuje seme kot po-mensko primitivne oz. nedeljive enote in se pri tem omejuje na možnost izrazitve oz. slovarske verbalizacije valenčnih semov z valenčnimi primitivi. The paper addresses the issue of how to identify certain kinds of semantic-expressional primitives in Slovene. These are units of language with which we can explain semantically and expressionally all or most of the vocabulary of the language. The discussion deals with semantemes as semantic primitives or irreducible units and in so doing is restricted to the possibility of expressing or provid-ing a dictionary realisation of valency semantemes using valency primitives. The purpose of this paper is thus to present above all those verbs that, as the most basic semantic-expressional units, in particular for dictionary explanations, can be called valency primitives. When putting together a valency dictionary of verbs and in particu-lar when selecting semantic base verbs for a dictionary account of the valency of verb entries, the selection of appropriate base valency verbs or valency verbal primitives is o