Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is a primary research institution in the Slovak Republic. It is named after Ľudovít Štúr, the most important leader of the Slovak national revival.
Departments As of 2025, the Institute consists of 6 research departments: Department of Dialectology Department of the Slovak Language History, Onomastics and Etymology Department of Language Cultivation and Terminology Department of Social Linguistics Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography Slovak National Corpus
Significant publications The most important publications are as follow:
Morphology of the Slovak Language, 1966, Vocabulary Dynamics of Contemporary Slovak, 1989 Slovak Language Dictionary, 6 vol., 1959 – 1968 Short Dictionary of Slovak, 4th ed. 2003 Slovak Synonym Dictionary, 2nd ed. 2000 Dictionary of Historical Slovak, 7 vol., 1991 – 2008 Slovak Dialect Dictionary, up to now 2 vol., 1994, 2006; *Dictionary of Contemporary Slovak, up to now 2 vol., 2006, 2011) The Rules of Slovak Orthography, 3rd ed. 2000
Several works have been issued treating the territorial differentiation of Slovak dialects within the Slovak territory as well as Slavic countries and the Carpathian area:
Atlas of the Slovak Language, 4 vol., 1968 – 1984 Slavic Linguistic Atlas, up to now Carpathian Dialectological Atlas, 8 vol., introductory (unnumbered) vol. in 1987, vol. 1 – 7 were issued in 1989
The Institue has also produced works on confrontational research of Slavic vocabulary:
Czech-Slovak Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1981 Great Russian-Slovak Dictionary, 5 vol., 1960 – 1970 Great Slovak-Russian Dictionary, 6 vol., 1979 – 1995
Journals Another core activity is the publication of science and popular science periodicals: Journal of Linguistics (), a journal focusing on general and theoretical questions of linguistics and its methodology including contemporary general, structural, functional, pragmalinguistic and cognitive linguistics, comparative works and also studies from other disciplines of the humanities dealing with philosophical or cultural aspects of language. Culture of the Word (), a peer-reviewed scientific popularization journal for language culture and terminology. Slovak Language (), a scientific journal devoted to the research of the Slovak language.
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