HISTORICKÝ KORPUS SLOVENČINY

The article presents the structure of the Corpus of Historical Slovak – a diachronic corpus of written Slovak texts predating language standardization attempts (texts from the 15th to the 18th century). The content of the corpus is based predominantly on existing published transcribed manuscripts, in this sense it is an opportunistic corpus, aiming to collect primarily existing texts; but we also collect and transcribe some documents directly, in order to improve the chronological balance of the corpus. The corpus aims for historical accuracy captured orthography-wise, but given existing standards in transcribing historical Slovak, this was not always possible with complete accuracy.