Mistrík Jozef. A Grammar of Contemporary Slovak

Published: Bratislava: SPN
Date: 1988
Pages: 160A traditional grammar of contemporary Slovak.
This is not a text-book but a norma tive handbook of the Slovak language. The descriptive style is applied here. This concise Grammar of Contemporary Slovak is understood within a rather wider context, discussing, apart from grammar itself, also the development of the language. Sections dealing with pronuncia tion, orthography, vocabulary and dialectology are also to be found in the book. With regard to the type of language, a major part is devoted to morphology. Contrasting notes are given in the text - directly or indirectly - only in places where they seemed indispensable
with regard to the different language types of English and Slovak. The book is destined to linguists possessing at least the rudiments of Slovak or of some other Slavonic language and able to use a Slovak-English dictionary. In many cases the examples are transla ted into English. This is omitted where the author assumes either the user's knowledge of the words or his ability to look them
up in dictionary.