PI Diweg-Pukanec at the Ministry of Culture
On October 13, 2025, at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Professor Martin Diweg-Pukanec, Principal Investigator of the project OXYMORAL, highlighted the scientific contribution and conceptual coherence of Prof. Ján Kačala’s monograph Skladba slovenského jazyka [Syntax of the Slovak Language]. PI of the project stated in the discussion that the monograph represents a synthesis of the author’s lifelong syntactic and sentence meaning research, which has significantly influenced the development of Slovak syntax.
Prof. Diweg-Pukanec also presented a concluding excerpt from a review by Prof. Ľubomír Kralčák, which was part of the publishing documentation for the monograph. The quoted conclusion of the review emphasized that the work Skladba slovenského jazyka represents a qualitative shift in the syntactic description of the Slovak language and, in terms of its theoretical and practical value, it is fully justified to include it among the codification publications of contemporary standard Slovak.
Prof. Diweg-Pukanec supported the proposal to include Prof. Kačala’s book among the codification publications and emphasized that the work can be seen as the result of the developmental continuity of Slovak linguistics, combining traditional codification approaches with modern interpretations of the language system, especially syntactic semantics. Immediately after the OXYMORAL PI’s fundamental contribution to the discussion, a vote was taken. Based on the results of the vote, Prof. Ján Kačala’s work Skladba slovenského jazyka (Matica slovenská, 2025) was recommended to the Minister of Culture for being listed among the current codification publications of the standard Slovak language.
Prof. Kačala gave the Principal Investigator of the project OXYMORAL a small gift for the Semantic Laboratory library. We hope the professor will visit the lab in the nearest future to give a lecture on syntactic semantics! (Photos from the Ministry are from the official Facebook page of the Minister of Culture).
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