Slovak temporal adverbs mnohokrát and veľakrát, the specificity of lexical meaning according to compatibility data

The article considers the issue of synonymy/quasi-synonymy Slovak temporal adverbs mnohokrát and veľakrát, which belong to semantic group “often”, based on material National Corpus. meaning lexemes included here assumes that a certain situation is repeated, speaker number such repetitions be high. analysis carried out base compatibility these in First, indicators logDice association measure (the distance between collocates from –6 6 tokens) are considered, it shown lists words ranked by this mostly same for both lexemes, veľakrát has specificity, high degree with adverbial modifiers marking an extremely frequency situation, or constructions suggesting detailed explication its causes. context appearance text thus comparison real state affairs desired one. In second part article, joint occurrence including more frequent často neraz. case, used either affairs, indicate directly observed situations. As follows analysis, almost complete synonyms, difference them specified specificity (high repetition, direct observability) pronounced than mnohokrát.