The dissertation presents the personal pronouns in the 16th-century Slovenian literary language from the orthographic, morphologic and morphosyntactic points of view. On the basis of a complete excerption from the works of 16th-century Slovenian Protestant writers, all the variants of personal pronouns are presented and evaluated according to their frequency and presumed origin (phonetic/phonological or analogical change, language contact, dialectal contact, errors) based on a comparison of Proto-Slavic reconstructions, medieval Slovenian manuscripts, modern Slovenian dialects and other Slavic languages; the translated texts are compared also with German or Latin originals. Also presented are the general language processes that affected the development of personal pronouns in the second half of the 16th century and the use of their morphologically varied long and short forms; for the latter there is a parallel paradigm in genitive, dative and accusative of some pronouns. On the basis of the analysis, claims that the frequent use of the long forms is a result of language contact are evaluated.
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