Mira Nábělková (ˈmira ˈnaːbi̯ɛlkɔvaː; born 1956 in Martin, Slovakia

Martin, Slovakia

Martin is a city in northern Slovakia, situated on the Turiec river, between the Malá Fatra and Veľká Fatra mountains, near the city of Žilina. The population numbers approximately 58,000, which makes it the eighth largest city in Slovakia...

) is a Slovak

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 linguist.
In 1975-1980, she studied Slovak and Russian philology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University of Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

, Slovakia. Since 1980, she worked in the Ľudovít Štúr

Ludovít Štúr

Ľudovít Štúr , known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr, was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language...

 Linguistics Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Slovak Academy of Sciences

The Slovak Academy of Sciences SAV is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research...

, Bratislava. She defended her PhD dissertation Relational Adjectives in Slovak: Functional-Semantic Analysis of Desubstantive Derivates (in Slovak) in 1989 (published in Bratislava in 1993). In 1991, she co-founded, and until 2000, organised the yearly international Colloquium of Young Linguists (Kolokvium mladých jazykovedcov), a well-known and very popular event for Slovak, Czech and Polish university students of linguistics and young linguists. She edited a number of volumes of Varia, proceedings from the Colloquium.

In 1999, Mira started her teaching career at the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague

Prague

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, where she has been teaching Slovak linguistics. In 1999-2004, she also taught at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Masaryk University

Masaryk University

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...

 in Brno

Brno

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, Czech Republic. She was awarded Masaryk University Silver Medal for her contribution to the development of Slovak Studies in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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Mira is working mainly in the fields of lexical semantics

Lexical semantics

Lexical semantics is a subfield of linguistic semantics. It is the study of how and what the words of a language denote . Words may either be taken to denote things in the world, or concepts, depending on the particular approach to lexical semantics.The units of meaning in lexical semantics are...

, word formation

Word formation

In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning...

, lexicography

Lexicography

Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....

, syntax

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....

 and sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...

. Currently, she deals with Czech-Slovak communication and language contact.

Family

Mira Nábělková was the wife of Karol Ježík (1953-1998), the founder of the SME daily

SME (newspaper)

SME or Denník SME is the most widely read and very influential mainstream broadsheet in Slovakia.Its target group is very wide, but officially it focuses on readers in bigger cities and agglomerations. Its circulation in December 2006 was 76 590. It appears 6 times a week. It is issued by Petit...

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Selected publications

• Slovenčina a čeština v kontakte: Pokračovanie príbehu. [Slovak and Czech in Contact: Continuation of the Story]. Bratislava, Praha: Veda, Jazykovedný ústav Ľ. Štúra SAV, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2008. 364 pp., ISBN 978-80-224-1060-1
• Closely related languages in contact: Czech, Slovak, "Czechoslovak". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 183, 2007, 53-73.
• Vzťahové adjektíva v slovenčine: Funkčno-sémantická analýza desubstantívnych derivátov. [Relational adjectives in Slovak: Functional-semantic analysis of desubstantive derivates]. Bratislava: Veda, 1993. 204 pp., ISBN 80-224-0352-0
• Horecký, J., Buzássyová, K., Bosák, J. et al. (1989). Dynamika slovnej zásoby súčasnej slovenčiny. [Lexical dynamics in contemporary Slovak]. Bratislava: Veda. 429 pp., ISBN 80-224-0047-5

Mira authored the chapters: Potencie a smery pohybov v adjektívnej lexike [Potentials and directions of the adjectival lexis dynamics] (pp. 169-179); Konkurencia adjektíva a pádu substantíva v prívlastkovej pozícii [Competition between adjectives and substantival cases in the attribute position] (pp. 179-187); Možnosti a spôsoby prekonávania obmedzení adjektívnej derivácie [Possibilities and ways of overcoming restrictions in adjectival derivation] (pp. 187-195); Konkurencia adjektív s domácimi a internacionálnymi formantmi [Competition between the adjectives with Slovak and international formants] (pp. 287-293).

External links

• Short professional curriculum vitæ and bibliography: http://www.juls.savba.sk/ediela/slovenski_jazykovedci/