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Until now, Czech grammars have focused primarily on the syntax of written texts, paying little attention to spoken discourse. In the present article, the authors have sought to a) explore the existing works on syntax to identify references to features peculiar to spoken Czech (normally classified as “deviations from regular sentence patterns”); b) complement them with findings of Czech dialectologists;...
Предметом исследования является словесное изображение жизненных стратегий в древнеиндийском собрании сказаний «Двадцать пять рассказов Веталы» («Веталапанчавимшати»), входящем в состав сочинения Сомадевы «Катхасаритсагара» («Океан сказаний»). Автор статьи на основании оппозиции приобретение ~ потеря идентифицирует в указанном произведении наличие двух базовых жизненных стратегий. Сутью первой – более...
In this paper, I describe the syntactic structure formation of Czech complex predicates with light verbs. I limit myself to a central type of Czech complex predicates, i.e. to the complex predicates composed of a light verb and a predicative noun expressed in the direct object. I demonstrate that in the deep syntactic structure, both the predicative noun and the light verb are characterized by their...
This paper presents a comparison of the largest contemporary corpus of spoken Czech ORAL2013 and a different source, data gathered in the project “Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Use of Prothetic v- in Bohemia” (SAUP). Both of these data sources consist of informal interviews with Czech speakers, but their design is different. ORAL2013 is based on shorter recordings of many speakers whereas the SAUP...
This study aims to provide and analyze a representative list of Czech initial syllable onsets and final codas along with their frequencies of occurrence in running text (token frequencies) and in the vocabulary of unique word forms extracted from it (type frequencies). The frequency data are important because many experiments have demonstrated that phonotactics is not categorical, but rather gradient...
Using the frameworks of natural morphology and functional-semantic analysis, the paper deals with the polyfunctional instrumental case in early speech development (during the first 3 years of a child’s life). Both a case study and a methodological study, it presents the results of research on grammatical forms, case meanings and the development of pragmatic functions. The key question is: which instrumental...
This article deals with the special issue of Studie z aplikované lingvistiky / Studies in Applied Linguistics 1/2015 devoted to Critical Discourse Analysis, particularly one of its approaches, i.e. Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). The studies included in the issue, i.e. Wodak and Reisigl’s model study explicating the main concepts and analytical tools of DHA and four case studies by Czech linguists...
The article explores the thematization of proper names (anthroponyms, chrematonyms and toponyms, includings street names) in Czech travelogues describing Soviet Russia (and later the Soviet Union). The material for the study comprised 40 travelogues published in book form and relating to the period 1917–1956. The aim of the article is to demonstrate how proper names function in this type of travelogue...
This text reports on an up-to-date approach to style presented in a new handbook of Czech stylistics (Hoffmannová, Homoláč, Chvalovská, Jílková, Kaderka, Mareš & Mrázková 2016). It describes the handbook’s sound and inspiring take on language and the situations, styles, texts and genres of contemporary communication (uncommonly based on the notion of communicative sphere rather than on the traditional...
This study focuses on the process of selecting and using reporting verbs in student writing and on their denotative and evaluative functions. The aim is to compare student and scholarly writing in order to find any possible interdisciplinary or genre differences. Bachelor’s and master’s theses written in academic English by Slovak students of English Language at the University of Presov, Slovakia,...
Классическая теория языковых контактов рассматривает их результаты лишь как интерференцию двух языков, приводящую к явлениям конвергентного характера. Однако при продолжающихся тесных языковых контактах между двумя близкородственными литературными языками в принимающем языке, проявляющим большýю жизнеспособность, во избежание смены языка возникают дивергентные явления, которые препятствуют его еще...
The present study addresses the phenomenon of code-switching in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. Theoretically and methodologically, the study builds on Auer’s sequential approach to code-switching, which employs ethnomethodological conversation analysis and views instances of code-switching as potential contextualization cues. The aim of the presented analysis was to uncover how the...
Katharina König: Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion: Eine gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung sprachbiographischer Interviews mit Deutsch-Vietnamesen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. XIII+407 pp. Empirische Linguistik / Empirical Linguistics 2.
Šárka Zikánová, Eva Hajičová, Barbora Hladká, Pavlína Jínová, Jiří Mírovský, Anna Nedoluzhko, Lucie Poláková, Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová & Jan Václ: Discourse and Coherence: From the Sentence Structure to Textual Relations. Prague: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, 2015. x+266 pp.
The article deals with the use of prefixes in the Czech accentual syllabic trochee. We test a hypothesis raised by Miroslav Červenka, Květa Sgallová, and Petr Kaiser which states that some authors in the 19th century used prefixes to moderate rhythmical irregularities. In our analysis – based on automatic prefix recognition in a large body of poetic texts from the Corpus of Czech Verse – we observe...
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