MASNICIOVO PRAEFATIO

• Authors: Ľubomír Ďurovič

Title variants

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Masnicius´s Praefatio

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The booklet “Zpráva pjsma slowenského” (1696) is a result of T. Masnicius ś experience during his exile in western Europe, where he came to understand that the Slovaks, being one of the Slavonic people, were unknown. He wrote this elementary introduction to the Slovak language, which is almost identical with the traditional Czech of that time. In addition, he called out more competent authors to continue this task and to produce better compendia. In this way, a concept of a literary language, called lingua slavico - bohemica arose. This impulse was developed in the methodologically pivotal Grammatica Slavico – Bohemica by Pavel Doležal (1742) and methodologically continued in all of the following grammars of Slovak and Czech, including the grammars of Czech by J. Dobrovský and of Slovak by A. Bernolák and Ľ. Štúr. In this way, the identity of Slovaks and Slovak language were generally accepted.

Keywords

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MASNICIUS; SLOVAK LANGUAGE; NATIONALITY; LINGUA SLAVICO-BOHEMICA

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 32 – 36

Contributors

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Ľubomír Ďurovič

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