Browsing through Lessico del dialetto sloveno del Torre/Besedišče terskega narečja (A Reminiscence of Pavle Merkù)

Abstract

This article compares Pavle Merkù’s lexicological work in the Torre Valley dialect with a work over a century older by the linguist Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay. The material collected by both authors provides a rare opportunity to compare Baudouin’s Glossario del dialetto del Torre (Glossary of the Torre Valley Dialect), which contains approximately 8,000 index cards, with still unpublished material that Merkù used for his Lessico del dialetto sloveno del Torre/Besedišče terskega narečja (Vocabulary of the Torre Valley Dialect) after thirty years of collection.