Reflexné masážna podložka. Morphosyntactic errors in the Slovak texts of e-shop products offers as a reflex of Czech-Slovak language differences

Abstract

The paper, dedicated to Ján Kačala at the occasion of his joubilee, concentrates on the specific morphosyntactic errors that appear in the communicative space of many e-shops offering products to Slovak costumers. In these Slovak product texts we can see a lot of bizarre agrammatic constructions characterized by the lack of the syntactic congruence.

The paper aims to show that the errors can be explained when Czech texts as the source of the machine translation to Slovak as well as the degree of Czech-Slovak differences in morphological homonymy are taken into account.

Keywords

• Ján Kačala
• e-shop
• product offer text
• Czech-Slovak machine translation
• morphosyntactic error
• lack of syntactic congruence
• morphological homonymy
• adjective