Abstract
This study provides a sketch of Slovak standard language development during the pre-codification period (15th-18th centuries) within a diglossia framework. The focus is on the earlier periods of the 15th and 16th centuries – the earliest time from which there is significant direct documentation of patterns of indigenous language use in Slovakia in the form of a larger corpus of texts written in a Slavic language (be it Czech or mixed Czech-Slovak). The investigation indicates a 15th-16th century situation of Czech-Slovak diglossia that is gradually resolved in the course of the 17th-18th centuries through increasing development and use of a mixed Czech-Slovak interdialect. This study is intended to establish a starting point for more in-depth sociolinguistic investigation of early linguistic development and language standardization in the Slovak lands.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
Repository Citation
Lauersdorf, Mark Richard, "Slovak Standard Language Development in the 15th–18th Centuries: A Diglossia Approach" (2002). Linguistics Faculty Publications. 33.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/33
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