Взаимодействие словацкой письменной традиции с народной речью
Interaction of Slovak written tradition with folk speech

Summary/Abstract: The Slovak Literary Language has been formed during a few centuries in such a way, that adopted Literary Czech has lost its traditional language units under the influence of Slovak dialects. However, original phenomena, which had not existed either in written texts or in the Slovak dialects, have arisen as a result of this interaction. One of them is the appearance of a mobile vowel i in the suffix of diminutives -ik in the position after a consonant č. Diminutives ending -ček obviously predominated in the writings before A. Bernolák and in the Bernolák’s ones. Only after Štúr’s codification and mainly since the end of 19th century these forms have begun to yield. This process, however, had different degrees of intensity in the forms with zero desinential morphemes on the one hand and with expressed ones on the other. The first forms have been replaced by forms ending -čik already in the third decade of the 20th century, therefore the second ones have continued to be in use. It actually means that contamination of two paradigms has occurred. But this process has not been finished and now the forms with a mobile vowel i are as a rule very rare and the number of words, which have them, has been essentially reduced.

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