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Morfologické výskumy v časopise Slovenská reč
Research on Morphology in the Slovenská reč Journal

Author(s): Jana Kesselová
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: grammatical form; word classes; grammatical category; form-forming process; Slovenská reč

Summary/Abstract: The study traces the development of morphological thinking about the Slovak language during the 90-year existence of the Slovenská reč journal. Morphology has been at the forefront of attention throughout the period, with the focus consistently on nouns and verbs. In the early years, contributions focused on normative morphology and the preservation of the purity of Slovak predominated along with the genre of diversity. The development of modern morphology begins with an orientation towards the description and classification of word classes and form-formation processes. A landmark was the publication of Morfológia slovenského jazyka (Morphology of the Slovak Language, 1966) with a system-structural description of the Slovak morphological system. By the end of the 1980s, interest in semantic-functional morphology intensified. The predominant genre is discussion. Since the 1990s, the methodological spectrum has been broadening. The sociolinguistic view of morphological variants, corpus morphology, morpho-pragmatics as well as the explanation of the dynamics of morphology and the morphological disposition of human beings are being promoted.

  • Issue Year: 87/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 107-129
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Slovak