Types of lexical-semantic interference between Slovak and Spanish

Abstract

The article presents a classification of types of lexical-semantic interference based on a contrastive analysis. The classification is intended to have a broader validity, although it is based on the examples of interference only between Slovak and Spanish.
Apart from the prototypical cases of so-called false friends which consist in semantic differences, we present other possible sources of interference, e.g. different values of stylistic, chronological, frequency parameters, etc. And finally, false analogy also occurs in cases of heteronymic equivalents, since speakers often assume, by analogy, identical parameters in the L2 equivalent.