Cognitive approach to collective nouns in South Slavic languages

U ovome radi provodi se usporedna analiza kolektivnih imenica u južnoslavenskim jezicima koristeći se teorijsko-metodološkim okvirom kognitivne lingvistike. Teorijske postavke preuzete su iz relevantne kognitivnolingivističke literature te gramatika južnoslavenskih jezika. U uvodnim poglavljima rada govori se o specifičnom pristupu vrstama riječi koji kognitivna lingvistika zagovara, pa tako i o konceptu kolektivnosti. Središnji dio rada posvećen je katogoriji živosti koja i u drugim, a posebno južnoslavenskim jezicima uvelike interferira s kolektivnošću kao semantičkim sadržajem leksema pri odabiru određenih sročnosnih obrazaca. Na kraju je provedeno anketno istraživanje procjene stupnja živosti odabranih kolektivnih imenica od strane izvornih govornika hrvatskog jezika, kao i korpusna analiza odabranih kolektivnih imenica pri odabiru sročnosnog obrasca u hrvatskom, bugarskom te slovenskom jeziku.In this work, a comparative analysis of collective nouns in the South Slavic languages is carried out using the theoretical-methodological framework of cognitive linguistics. This theoretical model is based on relevant cognitive linguistics literature and the grammar of South Slavic languages. In the introductory chapters, a specific approach to word classes as advocated by cognitive linguistics, including the concept of collectivity, is discussed. The central part of the paper examines the category of animacy. In various languages, especially the South Slavic ones, animacy interferes significantly with collectivity in the context of lexeme semantics when deciding on certain agreement patterns. Lastly, a survey was conducted, displaying native Croatian speakers’ assessment of the degree of animacy of some collective nouns. A corpus analysis of a set of collective nouns and their respective agreement patterns in Croatian, Bulgarian and Slovenian languages is also included