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This article presents the findings of a detailed inquiry into syntactic constancy between English and Czech; the clause elements under discussion include the subject, object, adverbial and subject complement. The project assumes the general validity of the principle of end focus (basic distribution of communicative dynamism) as a superordinate factor with respect to syntactic structure. Since the...
This article deals with intercultural contact in branches of multinational companies or corporations founded in the Czech Republic by German, Austrian or Swiss owners. Multinational businesses (large ones in particular) are trying to regulate the communication within the company. This is achieved predominantly by introducing an official corporate language in the company, employing people fluent in...
This paper discusses syntactic restrictions on infinitival imperatives in Czech. The authoress argues that for an infinitival imperative to be well-formed, there must be syntactic material asymmetrically c-commanding V in the phase (cyclic domain) of the imperative. She compares this restriction to other cross-linguistic restrictions on roots: in particular, she shows that the behavior of Czech infinitival...
Non-verbal plural number agreement is, especially in the cross-linguistic context, an under-researched topic. English and German seem to differ with regard to number preference in objects, adverbials and modifiers following plural subjects. While English prefers the distributive plural – direct correspondence in number between the (formally or notionally) plural subject of a clause and a nominal clause...
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