MOTIVÁCIA V SLOVENČINE A NEMČINE NA PRÍKLADE VYBRANÝCH POJMOV Z DEJÍN ARCHITEKTÚRY

The study deals with the motivation of architectural terms used by art historians for descriptions of monuments from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque period. Introductorily, the author points out the relevance of research into lexical motivation and further on discusses the theory of motivation, including motivation types, motivation–saturation and motive. The research focuses proper on the comparison of motivation – saturation and frequency of motivation types in the sample of the Slovak and German art-historical descriptions of monuments. The results indicate similar extent of motivation-saturation in both language variants of the sample. Moreover, the frequented motives are presented with examples in more details.