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The Synchronic Dynamics of Words Ending in -ita/-osť Cover

The Synchronic Dynamics of Words Ending in -ita/-osť

Open Access
|Dec 2019

Abstract

This paper focuses on the potential of using corpora to study manifestations of the synchronic dynamics of language and on the analysis of how words with the suffixes -ita/-osť function in contemporary texts. The analysis is based on data from the Slovak National Corpus: the corpus of older texts (texts from 1955 to 1989), the primary corpus (texts from 1955 to 2017, especially since 2000), and the corpus of online texts (until 2017). A comparison of the frequency and collocations of the analyzed words shows the dynamics of these microsystems in the language of the previous and the current period.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0048 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597
Language: English
Page range: 170 - 179
Published on: Dec 21, 2019
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2019 Mária Šimková, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
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