Part-of-Speech and Other Grammatical Issues Concerning the Vocabulary of the 16 Century Slovene Protestant Writers

Abstract

On the basis of individual typified examples this article brings a general overview ofpart-of-speech tagging of corpus material collected from complete excerpts of the works of the 16th century Slovene Protestant writers. The results of the analysis based on the entire corpus, new theoretical perspectives, the consideration of developmental changes in the Slovene language, of linguistic and historical facts - especially for those languages which had direct or indirect influence on Slovene, especially German - contribute to reliable and appropriate solutions. Just how necessary it is to identify the real scope ofpart-of-speech realizations of an individual lexeme is shown through a detailed analysis of the lexeme kje (< kej) which can occur alone or as a part of a compound.