PROCESI JEZIKOVNEGA SEPARATIZMA PRI ČEZMEJNIH JEZIKOVNIH MANJŠINAH: PREVZEMANJE, PRILAGAJANJE IN PREVAJANJE COVIDNE TERMINOLOGIJE MED SLOVENCI IN SLOVENKAMI V ITALIJI.

The paper reports on the results of a comparative corpus analysis of texts published in Primorski dnevnik, the Slovenian daily published in Italy, in 2020 and 2021. We contrast these texts with information from Slovenian corpora and language resources. The research is focused on the lexis connected with the Covid-19 epidemic as this topic brings about a number of specifics such as rapid genesis and determinologization, single- or self-referentiality, using loanwords (from English), etc. The research is based on corpus-linguistic survey of 618 issues (two volumes) of the Trieste daily newspaper Primorski dnevnik. We used this body of texts to create a corpus that can be used to discern the differences in the use of lexemes in different datasets. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the level of difference in the lexis of Standard Slovene on both sides of the border. For this reason, we chose to employ corpus methodology as it allows us to compare large bodies of data. The analysis confirmed our initial hypothesis that there is a high level of variation in language use in this region and that this variation cannot be attributed to the factors that normally explain the deviations from standard language, the effects of languages in contact and minority languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]