O ustaľovaní a variantnosti lexikálnej jednotky check-out a jej domácich ekvivalentov
On the stabilisation and variation of the lexical unit check-out and its domestic equivalents

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the anglicism check-out and to describe its linguistic properties in the Slovak language. Our focus is not only on the orthographic and morphological adaptation of this foreign word, but also on its spelling variants check out and checkout. By corpus analysis of the word check-out we demonstrate how the adaptation process of foreign words depend on the linguistic system of the Slovak language and the needs of the users. We also focus on the Slovak equivalents of the word check-out, in particular, on the verbal noun odubytovanie, the verb odubytovať and the imperfective verb form odubytovávať. On a basis of a comparison of their frequency in the main corpus of written texts and the web corpus of the Slovak National Corpus we observe the variation, or the preference of borrowed and native words in selected corpora.

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