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Súčasná slovenská jazykoveda (čo máme, čo nám chýba a čo ďalej?)
Contemporary Slovak Linguistics (What We Have, What We Are Missing and What’s Next?)

Author(s): Martin Ološtiak
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Slovak linguistics; state of the art; strengths; weaknesses; opportunities

Summary/Abstract: The paper concentrates on the state of contemporary Slovak linguistics. Divided into five parts, it provides an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses. First, a brief overview of similar summarizing papers is given. The second part presents the most important publication results in the areas of lexicography, grammatical and morphosyntactic research, lexicology, derivatology, dialectology, stylistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmalinguistics, theory of standard language, onomastics, popularization and cultivation of language, diachronic research, linguodidactics and corpus-driven research respectively. The third part highlights several areas that do not receive sufficient attention in Slovak linguistics, particularly phonetics, phonology and orthoepic dictionary, phraseology and phraseological dictionary, synthetic grammatical compendia, popularisation outputs, among others. The focus of the fourth part is the discussion on the main causes of the current state of the art and identification of objective and subjective circumstances behind these causes. Finally, the paper outlines the ways how the current situation could be improved and white spots on the map of Slovak studies could be gradually completed.

  • Issue Year: 88/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 90-112
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Slovak
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