Locative in Czech: '-U' or '-e'? Choosing Locative Singular Endings in Czech Nouns.

Focuses on the highly developed nominal inflection of literary Czech and its resistance to innovation. This study addresses the status of morphological variation in the contemporary language. The stubborn survival of "e" in a mass of older Slavic vocabulary in Czech is clearly no invention of the national revivalists and grammarians of the last century. (57 references) (CK)