ethnolinguistics; general linguistics; Blacany; Carpathians; Moscow Ethnolinguistic School; Vallachian Collonization

Monografie připravená ve spolupráci Ostravské univerzity a Ústavu slavistiky Ruské akademie věd shrnuje výsledky několikaletých etnolingvistických výzkumů regionu Západních, Jižních a Severních Karpat.

Today the areal ethnolinguistic study of the Balkan-Slavic and the South Slavic traditions - on the one hand, and just the Balkan ones (the languages and dialects made up the Balkan sprachbund) - on the other hand, has a solid basis for comparing the obtained facts with the Carpathian ethnolinguistic data. Therefore, when studying the Carpathian traditions (Romanian, Western Ukrainian, Slovak, Hungarian), an ethnolinguistic questionnaire was used, which was previously used in the field work of the Balkan zone. A unified program, based on the principle ?from meaning to verbalization? in terms of genetically unrelated languages, provides secure comparability and reliability of the results.The book is divided thematically into three parts, corresponding to the study of the Southern Carpathians (Romania; section II), the closest to the Balkans and often regarded as their continuation (the Northern Balkan zone), the Eastern Carpathians (western Ukraine, the Rusyns of Slovakia, section III) and the Western Carpathians (the Carpathian spurs in Slovakia, partly in the Czech Republic and Poland, section I).