KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN THE LUŽNICA REGION

The paper offers an analysis of the kinship terminology for the relations by blood or marriage in the Lužnica region compiled in Rečnik govora Luţnice (The Dictionary of the Lužnica Dialect, 2018) by Lj. Ćirić. Along with a lexico-semantic analysis of about one hundred lexemes excerpted from the dictionary, some linguistic and etymological notes are also provided. The objective is to demonstrate that in collecting dialect-specific lexemes systematic lexical Rečnik govora Luţnice inventorying using questionnaires enables an almost perfect reconstruction of the particular terminological system of a dialect.