Szlovákiai magyar hivatalos szövegek lexikai és szintaktikai sajátosságai
Lexical and Syntactic Characteristics of Official Hungarian-Language Texts in Slovakia

Author(s): Katarina Misadová
Subject(s): Syntax, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: Slovakia Hungarian official texts; lexical and syntactic characteristics
Summary/Abstract: The present paper investigates the lexical and syntactic characteristics of Slovakia Hungarian official texts, both texts translated from Slovak and texts originally written in Hungarian. The corpus of texts analyzed comes from municipal government offices of Southern Slovakia settlements with a local majority of Hungarians, where the oral and written use of the minority population has to be guaranteed in the municipal government offices according to effective laws and regulations. The paper examines, specifically, how the majority language, Slovak, and the bilingual environment in general affect the use of special terminology and syntactic construction of phrases and sentences in Hungarian language texts. The point of departure of the paper is a brief overview of the regulations concerning the use of minority languages in official interactions.

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