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On the competing word order positions of the Czech pronominal enclitics in the Oldest Czech Bible

KOSEK, Pavel, Olga NAVRÁTILOVÁ and Radek ČECH

Basic information

Original name

On the competing word order positions of the Czech pronominal enclitics in the Oldest Czech Bible

Name in Czech

O konkurenci slovosledných pozice českých pronominálních enklitik v nejstarším českém biblickém překladu

Authors

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

Edition

Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 24 10 2018, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101328

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

enklitikon; clitic third; heavy constituent constrain; kvantitativní liguistika; historický vývoj češtiny; staročeská bible; clitic climbing

Keywords in English

enclitic; clitic third; heavy constituent constrain; quantitative linguistics; historical development of Czech; Old Czech Bible

Tags

Změněno: 28/3/2019 09:15, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč

Abstract

V originále

The paper deals with the short pronominal forms that have status of so called "stálá enklitika" (‘permanent enclitics’) or enclitica tantum in Modern Czech: mi ‘me’, ti ‘to you’, si ‘to myself / to yourself etc.’, sě (> se) ‘myself / yourself etc.’, tě ‘you’, ho ‘him’, mu ‘to him’. The analysis is based on the material gained from the selected books of the oldest complete Czech Bible translation of the half from the 14th century. The talk is focused on the word order properties of the analyzed pronominal forms that are dependent on a finite verb. The paper interprets them in the light of the main competing positions of Czech enclitics during the development of the language: 1. the postinitial position, i.e. when an enclitic is located after first word / phrase; 2. the contact (verb-adjacent) position, i.e. when an enclitic is located immediately before (preverbal position) or after (postverbal position) its syntactically or morphologically superordinate item. The lecture discusses this developmental competition in the light of following factors: • influence of style, • influence of rhythmic rules, • influence of the complexity of the clause, • influence od Latine pretext Vulgata.

Links

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