Slovenské nárečia ako základ pre výskum najstarších dejín slovenského jazyka z metodologického hľadiska
Slovak dialects as a basis for research into the early history of Slovak from the methodological viewpoint

Summary/Abstract: In the text, the author poses several questions regarding the status of Slovak in the family of Slavic languages. No continuous language records have been preserved from 10th – 15th centuries,i.e. the period of the internal history of Old Slovak. Merely individual words, such as proper names (of places and persons) have been preserved in records written in Latin. Based on this incomplete and fragmented material, old linguistics, applying the principles of the Junggramatiker(Young Grammarian) School, was not able to provide a systemic description of Old Slovak. Only much later, modern linguistics, applying the basic principles of structuralism and modern research methods, used Slovak dialects to reconstruct the early history of Slovak. The author, later on,provides an overview of old as well as more recent phenomena of Proto-Slavic origin, which are,traditionally, considered so-called “Yugoslavisms” or phenomena of non-western Slavic origin in Old Slovak

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