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Reflexes of laryngeals in the Akkadian loanwords from the West-Semitic Languages in the 1st millenium BCE
Dobrota, Andrej ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Dušek, Jan (referee)
The aim of this work is to determine the patterns used by the speakers of Akkadian to adapt laryngeal phonemes in loanwords from West-Semitic languages by analysing the reflexes of these phonemes in the Akkadian words. Corpus used for analysis is taken mainly from already existing lists of West-Semitic loanwords in Akkadian (von Soden 1966, 1968, 1977; Cherry 2017; Zadok 2021, 2022) subsequently reduced using criteria based on Abraham - Sokoloff (2011) and supplemented by additional lexemes (mainly from CAD). The results of this analysis are further corroborated by analysing transcriptions of West-Semitic personal names occurring in RINAP 1 - 5 containing laryngeals into cuneiform. Findings of these analyses are then presented in the final part of the work. It was possible to determine quite unambiguously the individual patterns of adaptation of the respective laryngeal phonemes. Original /ḥ/ and /ḫ/ were adapted as /ḫ/, original /ˤ/ and /ˀ/ as /ˀ/ or ∅, depending on its position. Original /h/ and /ġ/ were not present in the studied corpus, thus precluding any possibility of determining their adaptation patterns. The results of this work may be applied to better understand strategies employed by Akkadian speakers in adapting loanwords and they give a systematic survey of these patterns when applied...
Vetný slovosled v maltčine: Kvantitatívna analýza
Čéplö, Slavomír ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Fabri, Raymond (referee) ; Zeman, Daniel (referee)
This dissertation is a quantitative analysis of constituent order (i.e. the order of subject, verb and object) in contemporary (post-2000) Maltese, a Semitic language descended from North African varieties of Arabic, spoken primarily in the Malta archipelago and Australia. The analysis is based on data collected in two corpora: a general corpus and a syntactically annotated corpus (dependency treebank); the compilation and descrip- tion of the treebank is the secondary aim of this work. The dissertation comprises 8 chapters divided into two parts: the irst three chap- tersofwhichprovideaconceptualfoundation(chapter1),areviewofexistingmajorap- proaches to the study of constituent order (chapter 2) and a review of previous works on Maltese constituent order (chapter 3). Using these as the background, chapter 4 then sets the research questions and methodology. The remaining three chapters form the core of the dissertation: chapter 5 describes the composition and enrichment of the general corpus of Maltese. Chapter 6 then provides a thorough description of the Maltese treebank and the annotation decisions, thus in effect assembling a sketch of Maltese syntax. Chapter 7 then provides the actual quantitative analysis of constituent order in Maltese based on the treebank, arriving at the conclusion that...
Apartment building on Tišnov - construction technology project
Zemánek, Petr ; Vlčková, Jitka Laura (referee) ; Venkrbec, Václav (advisor)
The diploma thesis is devoted to the construction technology project of the foundation construction part of the Tišnov - Mlýnská Apartment Building (SO 01). The diploma deals in detail with the special foundation and monolithic construction of the building. The work contains a technical report, route solutions, a study of the main technological stages, machinery solution, technological regulations, the quality control plan. In the attachment, the time schedule, workforce plan, design of machinery and materials as well as drawings of the construction site equipment.
Formal analysis of Akkadian morphology
Schürerová, Lucie ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Vavroušek, Petr (referee)
In recent years we can witness tendencies to process electronically not only living languages, but also ancient languages. This trend has also its impact on the sphere of Semitic languages as well. My thesis deals with the situation at Akkadian language. The extent of this thesis does not allow to solve the issue of automatic morphological analysis - however, it is possible to specify the morphological model of the Akkadian language with regard to use of the defined categories and their values in tagging of Akkadian. When processing Akkadian electronically we need to face several important issues. Since Akkadian is a dead language, it is not possible to gather information from native speakers, we have to depend fully on written sources. The first problem is the written text itself - it needs to be transliterated from a cuneiform script, which was not originally mentioned for a Semitic language. Further we need to solve the issue of defining the word boundaries, so that we could proceed to the morphologic analysis and tagging. Last but not least we have to deal with phonetic changes in such cases as assimilation, dissimilation, contraction etc. In the practical part of the thesis I suggested a tagset and used it for tagging of cca 60 lines of the original Akkadian text from the preface to Hammurabi's Code....
Quantitative view on the arabic text structure
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Petkevič, Vladimír (referee)
The thesis suggests several general quantitative linguistic falsifiable hypotheses and tests them on corpora of standard modern Arabic, medieval Arabic and some European languages, including Czech and English. The hypotheses deal with structures built by word lengths and word frequencies within sentences and supra-sentential elements, with connection between sentence length - its constiuents frequency relation and Menzerath-Altmann Law, and with a view on text via so-called combinatorial mapping.
The ways of enriching the Arabic lexicon with a special respect to journalistic style
Bielický, Viktor ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
The present study consists of two parts. The first, theoretical part focuses on brief and mostly lexical characteristics of the Arabic media language style (Chapter 2) and describes in outline all word-formational methods used in Modern Standard Arabic for lexical innovation, especially in the field of scientific and technical vocabulary (Chapter 3), i.e. derivation (ištiqq), lexical borrowing (tacrb), composition (nah t), semantic extension (maz), and translation (tarama). The second part (Chapter 4), based on a digitalized corpus of newspaper texts (Lebanese daily newspaper al-H ayt), deals in detail with word-formational, structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis of selected one-word, compound and multi-word lexical units (collocations) in Modern Standard Arabic. An Arabic-Czech dictionary of all lexical material treated in the text is attached to the study (Appendix).
Valency Dictionary of Arabic Verbs
Bielický, Viktor ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Žabokrtský, Zdeněk (referee) ; Danecki, Janusz (referee)
(EN) Valency Dictionary of Arabic Verbs PhDr. Viktor Bielický This dissertation serves as a theoretical background for creating a valency dictionary of verbs in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) which is primarily in the form of an electronic database. The Functional Generative Description is used as a theoretical framework for the description of verbal valency in Arabic. Chapter 1 introduces the verbal system of MSA with an emphasis on semantic relations within the system of verbal morpho- semantic patterns (verbal stems). Chapter 2 outlines the current research status of valency in Arabic including various research projects focused on creating electronic databases for Arabic verbs. Chapter 3 presents an overview of a valency theory developed within the Funtional Generative Description and it also provides a brief description of two broad coverage valency dictionaries for the Czech language - VALLEX and PDT-Vallex. Chapter 4, the core of the study, analyses semantics and the surface realization of different types of valency complemens in MSA, i.e. actants, quasi-valency and free (adverbial) complements. The final chapter, Chapter 5, describes the methodology and the structure of the valency dictionary the printed version of which is attached to the thesis. Key words: verbal valency, Modern Standard...
The Theory of Communication as an Explanatory Principle for the Natural Multilevel Text Segmentation
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Cvrček, Václav (referee) ; Altmann, Gabriel (referee)
1. Phonemes, words, clauses and sentences are not a logical necessity of language, unlike distinctive features and morphemes. 2. Despite this, such nested segmentation is very firmly present in languages and in our concepts of language description, 3. because nested segmentation and inserting redundancy on multiple levels is an efficient way to get the language signal through the burst-noise channel. 4. There are various strategies how redundancy can be added and what kind of redundancy can be added. 5. The segment delimiter is expressed by some additional information and the amount of delimiting information is independent from the length of the seg- ment it delimits. This principle can serve as a basis for a successful model for the Menzerath's relation.
Lexical analysis of the novel "Mahrem" by Elif Şafak
Farahat, Milena ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Kučera, Petr (referee)
one hand it deals with the litera! and stylistic aspects of the novel in relation to the use of vocabulary, dosely linked to the topic of the novel, on the other hand it focuses on inner structures of the text, which is analysed and demonstrated by strict use of mathematical means. The thesis i s divided in to three parts, each focusing on a different aspect of the literary work and therefore each having its own method. From the perspective of the approach to the analysed subject, the first two chapters share many common features with regards to their interest in the aesthetic function of literary techniques, be they the narrative structure or the use ofvocabulary. The third chapter deals with textual structures while applying quantitative methods in accordance with text linguistics. It can be stated that the results ofthe first analysis serve as an introductory step into the second analysis, especially because of the use of the frequency dictionary ofthe novel that was created for the first analysis. The stylistic-lexical analysis confirms that Elif Safak deploys a wide range of archaic words, which is not very common in modem Turkish, but they are well incorporated in the novel's rhetorical style. This fact contributes to the high litera! quality ofthe novel. The study concentrates on different aspects of...
The Idafa construction in Arabic and its morphosyntactic behaviour
Pospíšil, Adam ; Křivan, Jan (advisor) ; Zemánek, Petr (referee)
The so called Idafa construction is the central means for coding an attributive relation between two nominal phrases in Arabic. The semantics of the relation is rather vague, but it generally corresponds to a typical cross-linguistic concept of possession. This paper presents an analysis of the way this construction is marked, using the fundamental distinction between dependent-marking and head-marking features, which is outlined in Nichols (1986). It turns out that the traditional label classifying Idafa as a genitive construction can be misleading, since the morphosyntactic role of the genitive ending is rather dubious and it is rather the head-marking features that signal the presence of the relation. However, these features seem a little obscure since they do not dwell in adding a affixu to the head noun, but rather in imposing certain restrictions on the head (only bare heads are allowed and the head is left unspecified for the category of definiteness). In addition, as the analysis is aimed at the natural spoken use of Modern Standard Arabic, I take into account the socio-pragmatic variation presented by the possibility of reducing the nominal endings in speech, approached insightfully in Magidow (2009). These reductions give rise to a slightly different structural view of the morphosyntax of this...

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