Slavistična prepletanja 4

Gjoko Nikolovski holds a PhD in Slovene linguistics and works as an assistant professor for the Slovene language and a lecturer for Slavic languages. He is employed at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, where he teaches Slovene as a second and foreign language and South Slavic languages (Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian). He researches South Slavic languages on different linguistic levels from a synchronous and diachronic point of view. He has been involved in the research and application projects Slovene Language in Contact with the European Danube and Alpine Space (2011–2012), Digitalization and Access to Dictionary Resources (2018–2019) and Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand (2017–2021). He was the head of the Student Innovative Projects for Social Benefit; under these projects, they created two freely accessible web applications SOS Slovene (2019) and Hotel Slovene (2020), which are intended for learning Slovene as a second and foreign language. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Slovene Linguistics, Literature and Slovene Language Teaching Program Group.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: gjoko.nikolovski@um.si

Natalija Ulčnik holds a PhD in linguistics and works as an associate professor for Slovenian language and lectures at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. Her research interests include the history of the Slovenian (literary) language, lexicology, lexicography, phraseology and paremiology. She focuses on linguistic developmental laws, changes in Slovenian and literary variance and more recently on the preparation of phraseological learning materials in the digital environment. Between 2017 and 2021 she led the project Slovenian in the palm of your hand, within which a learning e-environment for Slovenian was prepared. She edited the monograph Slovenian in the palm of your hand 4, which is related to digitization in linguistics, development and use of language resources, and learning e-environments. She has participated in several research projects in the field of linguistics, including the lexicographic project Hungarian-Slovenian Dictionary (2015–2019), which was carried out at the Faculty of Arts of the ELTE University in Budapest. She is a member of the research program Slovenian Linguistics, Literature, and Slovenian Language Teaching.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: natalija.ulcnik@um.si