Kolik procent lexikálních výpůjček můžeme očekávat ve slovenském textu?
What is the Loanword Percentage We Can Expect in Slovak Texts?
Author(s): Jiří MiličkaSubject(s): Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: corpus; etymology; loanwords; Slovak language; statistics; vocabulary;
Summary/Abstract: The study builds on the article Frequency of Lexical Units of Foreign Origin in Slovak (Garabík – Karčová, 2019) which describes the origins of the most frequent words in Slovak texts and concludes that there is unexpectedly low percentage of loanwords in the sample. Our study analyses their dataset further to explore the relation of the word’s frequency and its probability of being a loanword, discovering that there is an inverse proportion between these two variables. Upon these findings we build the model of the loanword distribution that answers our question articulated in the title of this paper.
Journal: Slovenská reč
- Issue Year: 85/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 76-81
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Czech