0505038 - ÚJČ 2020 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Křivan, Jan
Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in spoken Czech.
Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 - (Johanson, L.; Mazzitelli, L.; Nevskaya, I.), s. 149-168. Studies in Language Companion Series, 206. ISBN 9789027202048
Institutional support: RVO:68378092
Keywords : Czech * corpora of spoken and written Czech * pronominal and adjectival adnominal possessive constructions * frequency distributions * prominence hierarchies
OECD category: Linguistics

This article analyses two types of possessive constructions in Czech: pronominal attributive possession and adjectival attributive possession. By means of a usage-based approach to language, the aim of the present corpus investigation is to reveal relevant patterns of grammar and usage in order to explain the evolution of the concerned constructions. The main focus is put on spoken language. I analyse the given data from the Czech corpora of both spoken (ORAL2013) and written language (SYN2010). I test the hypotheses concerning different frequency distributions, and the position of the possessor on the prominence hierarchies. The results support functional explanations of emergence of the pronominal and adjectival constructions, based on the prominent status of the possessor.
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