On the Development of Old Czech (En)clitics

KOSEK, Pavel, Radek ČECH, Olga NAVRÁTILOVÁ and Ján MAČUTEK. On the Development of Old Czech (En)clitics. Glottometrics. Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag, 2018, vol. 40, No 1, p. 51-62. ISSN 1617-8351.

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

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60202 Specific languages
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• 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
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

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