HISTORICKÁ LINGVISTIKA V ČASOPISE SLOVENSKÁ REČ

The article presents an overview of researched topics from the field of historical linguistics presented in the nine decades of the Slovenská reč journal. The analysis of the journal’s content reveals that the field of historical linguistics is covered very fragmentarily and the reasons for this state are summarized in the introductory part of the paper. In the next parts, individual cases of phonetic, grammatical, and lexical changes are characterized, as well as the opinions of different scholars on the particular topics are compared. The presentation of historical linguistic topics is closely connected with other diachronic linguistic disciplines such as etymology, dialectology, onomastics, and the history of literary language. Moreover, the types of analysed questions also revealed the thematic conditionality of the historical research topics and current issues discussed in the synchronic linguistic spheres.