Lingvistický „obrat“ Vladimíra Hurbana Vladimírova
Linguistic “Turn” of Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov

Summary/Abstract: Taking the work of Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (pseudonym VHV, 1884 – 1950) as its prism, the article aims at providing an insight into the state of the language and the issue of language politics in the interwar period in the Slovak linguistic enclave in Vojvodina, Serbia. The article analyses the linguistic work of VHV and addresses the topic of language planning. VHV, in his attempts at strengthening the knowledge of their mother tongue among Slovaks in Serbia, took an active part in the forming of the modern Slovak language. He published linguistic essays in local periodicals and developed language courses for the locals. He taught Slovak in two basic courses – in 1925 and 1943 – in Stara Pazova. The students of his second course used Slovačka slovnica (1942) – a grammar book written by the Croatian Slovakophile Josip Andrić (1894 – 1964). The level of the knowledge of the language among the locals and the lack of specialised and normative publications prompted VHV to explain phenomena pertaining to Slovak orthography, morphology, lexicology, etymology and dialectology. He advocated for an etymological orthography and was of the opinion that orthography should only reflect the standard and codified variation of the language.

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