Conceptualization of Quantity in the Glagolitic Twitch Divination Text (Trepetnik) in Comparison With Other Slavic Texts

Sažetak

The paper investigates lexical quantifiers that modify quanti­ty in the twitch divination (trepetnik) texts written in Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts from the 15th to the 17th centuries (a Cro­atian, two Bosnian, a Macedonian, a Moldavian and a Serbian twitch divination text). The frequency of statements with quanti­fiers is studied, their semantic features analyzed, and the possibi­lity of establishing syntagmatic meanings in certain metonymic and metaphorical relations is explored. The research shows that the meaning of indeterminacy that characterizes the apodosis of a conditional sentence, as the basic structural element of the trepetnik, is also mapped onto the concept of quantity, so that the meaning of syntagmatic conjunctions in which lexical quan­tifiers occur is typically based on the concept of vertical orien­tation as quantity and the concept of abstract entities as limited sets that are typically modified by indefinite and proportional quantifiers. From a historical perspective, the foundation of the studied utterances in metonymic and metaphorical relationships related to body and space, especially to the sensorimotor doma­ins, but also a variant connection with the domains of time and emotions, is evident.