The bachelor’s thesis presents the main semantic groups and grammatical categories of the adjective, describes the Slovene conception of the category of definiteness, and then links the two notions – how the definite and indefinite adjectival forms developed in the Slovene language, how the category of definiteness is morphologically realised in the adjectival form today, what the rules of the usage of the definite or indefinite adjectival form are, and how the category in question is indicated in non-standard Slovene. It is also pointed out that syncretism could account for the overlapping of definite and indefinite adjectival forms. The thesis also includes an analysis of a short text, focusing on the usage of adjectives with regard to the category of definiteness.
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