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On the Development of Old Czech (En)clitics

KOSEK, Pavel, Radek ČECH, Olga NAVRÁTILOVÁ and Ján MAČUTEK

Basic information

Original name

On the Development of Old Czech (En)clitics

Name in Czech

K vývoji staročeských (en)klitik

Authors

KOSEK, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Radek ČECH (203 Czech Republic), Olga NAVRÁTILOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ján MAČUTEK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Glottometrics, Lüdenscheid, RAM-Verlag, 2018, 1617-8351

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60202 Specific languages

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00100805

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

UT WoS

000423871800003

Keywords (in Czech)

stará čeština; enklitika

Keywords in English

Old Czech; enclitics

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Reviewed
Změněno: 23/4/2024 10:23, Mgr. Michal Petr

Abstract

V originále

The presented study deals with the historical development of Czech (en)clitics (AuxP). Based on the data from the previous research (Kosek 2015a,b, 2017), it focuses on the development of one group the Czech (en)clitics – on the preterite auxiliary forms. In the article, three hypotheses are formulated and then tested on the data gained from selected parts of historical Czech Bible translations. The suggest that there were two significant word order position of historical Czech (en)clitics: 1. the post-initial position, i.e. after first word / phrase, 2. the contact position, i.e. an (en)clitic is located immediately before (pre-verbal position) or after (post-verbal position) its syntactically or morphologically superordinate item (the post-verbal position is the more frequent variant of the both variants of the contact positions). Since the time when the oldest analyzed text was translated, the post-initial position has had the status of the basic word order position of the Czech (en)clitic, while the contact position has had the status of a stylistically, pragmatically or textually motivated position. It seems that the contact position begins to retreat only in 19th century and hence the definitive historical change of Czech auxiliary (en)clitics in the sole second position clitics was realized not before 19th or 20th century.

Links

GA17-02545S, research and development project
Name: Vývoj českých pronominálních (en)klitik
Investor: Czech Science Foundation