On this page you can find sample materials from my two projects for Dunwoody Press. Both books will be published in early 2000. The information about that will be available at: www.mrminc.com.
These materials are pdf documents. They are best read in Adobe Acrobat 4.0. If you do not have this program, you can download it free of charge at: www.adobe.com/acrobat.
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This dictionary contains over 20,000 entries of colloquial Serbo-Croatian (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian Muslim) terms including slang and the most common dialectal items. It is the most comprehensive of all Serbo-Croatian nonstandard dictionaries in either monolingual and bilingual lexicography. The entries have received elaborate lexicographic treatment including the marking of stress and inflectional patterns, cognitive-linguistic treatment of the polysemic structures, field-of-usage, ethnic, regional, and register labels, examples, etc. The main text is preceded by a comprehensive introduction about the features of colloquial Serbo-Croatian and a statistical analysis of extensions. Appended to the dictionary is an English-SerboCroatian index and a reverse list of Serbo-Croatian entries. This dictionary is an essential tool for any learner of Serbo-Croatian and any scholar with interest in that area. One of the first dictionaries in which cognitive-linguistic methodology has been applied, it is also interesting for general linguists working in the area of cognitive linguistics. The book may also be available in electronic form with all inflectional forms expanded.
Please take a look at the Introductory text and the A-C section of the dictionary and e-mail me your comments at: sipkadan@erols.com
This bibliography of Serbo-Croatian dictionaries encompasses dictionaries from the beginning of this lexicographic tradition in the 15th century until the end of the year of 1999. The material for the bibliography has been collected both from the Serbo-Croatian speaking area and from several major libraries in Germany, Poland, and the United States. The bibliography is segmented into monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual dictionaries, and each section is articulated further according to the subject-matter and languages involved. The Bibliography contains subject, language, and author index. All section headings as well as the introduction are in English. This reference work is essential source for all libraries and Slavic departments
Please take a look at the table of contents and e-mail me your comments at: sipkadan@erols.com