Literature education and research

Slovene literary theory has historical roots at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ljubljana. It was there that a seminar of comparative literature was first held in 1926. Today the department offers 2 graduate study programmes and a doctoral study programme in Literary Theory.

The Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) was established in 1945 for the purpose of compiling linguistic materials and creating the basic resources for Slovenian language: a dictionary of orthography and pronunciation; a dictionary of standard Slovenian; descriptive and historical studies in linguistics; an historical-onomastic dictionary; an historical-topographical dictionary; a linguistic atlas; monographs on texts in various dialects; and phonogramic archives of dialects.

Since 1982 the institute has included sections for the development of lexical, etymological-onomastic, dialectical and terminological dictionaries. The institute's basic research into the Slovenian language both past and present and the extensive compilation of unique materials are important for the development of linguistics in Slovenia and at an international level.