Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the

Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences (, or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestablished in 1953. Its primary ...

is a primary research institution in the

Slovak Republic Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's ...

. It is named after

Ľudovít Štúr Ľudovít Štúr (; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, politician, and writer. As a leader of the Slovak nationalism, Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the c ...

, 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 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 Confrontational research of the Slavic languages 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 Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are cons ...

, 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.

References

{{reflist Linguistic research institutes Slovak language Language regulators