| 1. | Etymological analysis of a selected lexico-semantic group in Slovak ** | The topic of the thesis is the etymological analysis of a specific lexical-semantic group in Slovak (with regard to the contemporary standard language, Older Slovak, and Slovak dialects). The objective is a complex etymological interpretation of the relevant Slovak lexicon based on the standard methods and procedures which are commonly used in etymological research. |
| 2. | Lexis of Slovak anoikonyms ** | The thesis will focus on heuristic research of minor place-names from the selected area and their lexical, semantic, motivational and linguistic analysis and structural-typological classification with regard to the areas of distribution of individual lexemes and word-forms. The obtained results are possible to by utilised in the lexicographic processing of the anoikonymic lexis from the entire territory of Slovakia. |
| 3. | The research on oikonymy in relation to the settlement history ** | The topic is interdisciplinary, therefore historical knowledge and orientation in Latin, Hungarian and German are welcome. Oikonymic records (including possibly extinct names) from a particular region from the earliest times to the present will be analysed and classified according to the method of small types in order to reveal the relationships between name structures, their temporal layers and areal distribution, and to reconstruct the settlement process. The origin and motivation of the names will also be explained. |
| 4. | The development of urbanonymy and its linguistic analysis ** | The aim is to describe the dynamics and evolution of street names of medium and large-sized cities. The basis will be lexico-semantic and word-formation classifications. The development of urbanonymy will be analysed in stages defined by important milestones in the development of the city and the whole society. Changes in the use of motivational categories and word-formation processes will be illustrated by diagrams. The dissertation will include a list of contemporary urbanonyms with their explanation, the time of their origin and previous names of the locality in question. |
| 5. | Selected aspects of word class conversion in Slovak ** | The aim of the thesis will be: to map all types of word class conversion in Slovak; to grasp these conversions terminologically; to evaluate the previous lexicographic treatment of word class conversion and to research general mechanisms of conversion. In order to find appropriate criteria for identifying conversions, the thesis will analyze the morphology and word-formation processes in a selected group of these units |
