The aim of this contribution was to analyse the worsening.water quality problem, factors affecting this process, its consequences and possibilities of prevention. Evaluating a water worsening state ...of surface water in Žitný ostrov region (Danube Lowland, Slovakia) following the assessment of the physical-chemical and microbiological indicators, with regards of international and national legislative for the water quality status. The study was focused on the surface water pollution of Žitný ostrov channel network. Monitoring and assessment of following indicators were performed – temperature (t), dissolved oxygen (O2), chemical oxygen consumption (CHSKCr), pH, electrical conductivity (EC), specific conductivity (SPC), total dissolved solids (TDS), total nitrogen (NTOT), nitrate nitrogen (N-NO3-), nitrite nitrogen (N-NO2-), ammonia nitrogen (N-NH4+), total phosphorus (PTOT), phosphate phosphorus (P-PO43-). In most surface waters these include the cations Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and the anions Cl–, HCO3–, SO42–. Estimations of total dissolved solids (TDS) content are commonly based on electrical conductivity (EC) measurements, using a conversion factors (f) retrieved from regulations or guidelines. This paper determinate a conversion factor parameters as a case study to identify if reported conversion factors of Žitný ostrov surface waters are valid.
The thematic focus of this article is the question of Biblical phraseology. It draws on the source connection between Biblical phrasemes and their prototext. The relationship between the phrasemes ...and their source material is approached in a specific way, through the prism of its reflection in a particular cultural and linguistic environment and as regards the knowledge of contemporary users of a particular language. In a sociolinguistic research project conducted in a Russian cultural and linguistic environment, the authors seek an answer to a question that also pertains to broader cultural knowledge-that is, to what extent contemporary users of Russian are aware of the interconnection between a selected group of phrasemes and Biblical texts.
The paper focuses on a selected group of biblical phrasemes (po)zdvihnúť pätu (päty) proti niekomu; krívať (kuľhať) na obe (dve) nohy vs. krívať (kuľhať) na obe (dve) strany; kameň úrazu vs. kameň ...urážky. In addition to the formal-semantic and communication analysis, their connection with the biblical source is given particular attention (based on Slovak translations of the Bible, comparing the contemporary translations with historical ones). The life path of biblical idioms in a diachronic-synchronic perspective is created, on the one hand, on the material base of the Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language and selected historical written sources bearing witness to the past of the language; on the other, drawing on the material of the Slovak National Corpus (the corpus of Slovak texts available on the web), which provides testimony on the language of the present.
The study maps the scholarly research activities of the Department of Slovak Language and Literature of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Catholic University in Ružomberok with a focus on the ...results achieved within the framework of Slovak studies linguistic research in the years 2018 – 2023. The department is an institution with a mature, clearly formed research profile in the field of phraseology and didactics of Slovak as a mother tongue. In the field of phraseological research, the study approaches projects focused on biblical phraseology. Part of the text is, on the one hand, a description of the main publication outputs, which were the results of completed research of an international nature; on the other, an outline of the expected contribution of the current research, in which an interdisciplinary linguistic-theological approach is used in the analysis of biblical idioms and their motivational basis. In the field of didactics of Slovak as a mother tongue, the study presents key publications that reflect not only the history and current state of teaching Slovak, but (in relation to new challenges and perspectives in the European context) also outline certain prognoses and visions for this educational field. In further parts of the text, the research plans of the department towards the future are presented and its particularities and research focus are emphasized.
The paper summarizes nine decades of the Slovenská reč journal with a thematic focus on regional dialects and their scholarly reflection in the texts published therein. First and foremost, it ...presents articles of a dialectological nature but, in justified cases, attention is also paid to articles from other linguistic areas or approaches, as long as they bring relevant information about dialects (their reception and evaluation, development and functioning). As the results of the analysis show, the golden era of dialectology and dialects in the journal was the period of the 1970s through the 1990s, when not only the number of dialectologically oriented contributions increased but their material relevance, interpretive plausibility, and thus overall scholarly value intensified.
This paper focuses on the Slovak phraseme "figu borovú" (expressing the meaning a) absolutely not b) nothing at all), which is presented in Slovak lexicographic literature as a phraseme with the ...highest degree of morphological restriction (restricted to the form in the accusative of singular). However, the material in the Slovak National Corpus (sub-corpus of Slovak texts available on the web), in addition to the accusative form, also offers examples of the nominative type "figa borová". The paper maps the occurrence of these forms and analyses them from the functional semantic and morphosyntactic aspects. A natural part of the topic is also the socio-cultural dimension of the lexical unit "figa borová", which is also related to its gestural anchoring (the gesture: a thumb inserted between the index finger and middle finger). The core of the study is therefore preceded by an introduction to the gestural paralinguistic background and a look at lexicographic works of synchronic and diachronic character capturing the semantic structure of the noun figa. Special attention is paid to the relationship of phraseological units mať, dostať, dať (to have, to get, to give) figu borovú – mať, dostať, dať (to have, to get, to give) šušku borovú, from the attributive aspect, that is, in the line of model – analogy with relation to the adjective borový, which is their component part.
The paper focuses on the phraseme prispieť svojou hrivnou to give one's mite to smth., taking into account a wider Slavonic comparison framework. The comparison of semantic phraseological equivalents ...in individual Slavonic languages Slovak, Czech: prispieť svojou hrivnou – přispět svou hřivnou; East Slavonic and South Slavonic languages: vnosiť (dať) svoju leptu reflects the differences in the established monetary intra-phrasemes (the lepton – the name of a small Greek coin of little value, and "hrivna" – a unit of weight of precious metals, mainly gold and silver, in medieval Central and Eastern Europe, and also used as a type of currency before the use of minted coins was established). Since scholarly phraseology literature considers the phrasemes prispieť svojou hrivnou, vnosiť (dať) svoju leptu to give one's mite to smth. as biblically motivated units, the author of the paper raises the question of what factors were involved in shaping the biblical nature of the phraseme prispieť svojou hrivnou, which, in the context of Slavonic languages, is used only in Slovak and Czech languages.
