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Semantic Adaptation of Turkisms in the Vrgorac Dialect

The chapter deals with the contactof TZurkish and the Vrgorac dialect. Turkish words were borrowed during the Ottoman occupation. Turkisms under analysis were grouped into semantic fields and analysed according to the degrees of semantic adaptation, i.e. adapted by a) zero extension, b) restriction of meaning, and c) expansion of meaning.

Turkish, Croatian, Turkisms, Vrgorac dialect, lexical borrowing, semantic adaptation

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