Číslo 2 - Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV

Language of the Works of Martin (Sentiváni). Documented by Examples
from his polemical treatise Lutheranicum nihil ad rem, nihil ad propositum
Svorad Zavarský
The language of the texts under investigation is strongly influenced by vernacular interference, both on syntactical and
lexical levels. The author draws attention to some of the general phenomena: inconsistent use of the verbal mood, confusion of the
past tenses (which the author explains to be the result of an aspectal usage of the verbal tense), peculiar application of several
conjuctions, e.g. quod and cum (which the author considers to be caused by the transfer of polysemy from a vernacular language
to Latin), as well as inconsistency in the use of prepositions. Analyzing the Neo-Latin texts of Slovak provenance and finding out
its grammatical proprieties may become a useful auxiliary for the research into historical language interference in the territory of
Slovakia as well as into the development of the literary Slovak language.
Titulný list diela Lutheranicum nihil ad rem, nihli ad propositum v súbornom vydaní polemických spisov
Martina Sentivániho z roku 1718
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