POHĽAD NA SLOVENSKÉ ČASTICE Z GEOGRAFICKÉHO ASPEKTU

Particles as a special part of speech have been defined in the Slovak linguistics in connection with preparation of the academic Morphology of the Slovak Language (Morfológia slovenského jazyka, 1966). In the article we pay attention to a survey of their inventory in this work and in dictionaries of standard Slovak, as well as in dialectological works. We draw attention to the geographical provenance of some particles, which have penetrated into the standard language from artistic literature. The all-Slovak research of the dialect vocabulary brings a lot of new information about expressions belonging to this part of speech. It proves that dialects, as naturally evolving forms of the national language, have a large set of expressions of different origin and geographical distribution, by means of which the dialect users contextualize themselves or express their attitudes to the content of the statement.