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Strong adjectival forms in Early Middle English: a syntactic and FSP perspective
Kupková, Tereza ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
The Master's thesis proceeds from a corpus-based analysis and focuses on strong forms of Early Middle English adjectives. A formal distinction between weak and strong adjectival forms had disappeared during the period of Middle English, the work, therefore, aims at the transitional period between Old and Middle English, when the strong forms could still be identified, either due to the relics of inflectional endings, syntactic position, or context. A representative sample of the most frequent adjectives was chosen from the corpus comprising the extant Middle English texts with help of specific searching code. Consequently, the strong forms were manually chosen from these according to their formal characteristics and position in the sentence. This sample was then analyzed from the syntactic point of view, as well as from the point of view of functional sentence perspective. The results of the analysis show that the indication of indefiniteness was mostly expressed by the mix of syntactic and contextual means in EME. It has also been found out that the adjectives, being used both attributively and predicatively, were by rule part of the rheme.
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Procedural generation of human skin structure
Čermák, Jan ; Křivánek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
Title: Procedural generation of human skin structure Author: Jan Čermák Department: Department of Software and Computer Science Education Supervisor: doc. Ing. Jaroslav Křivánek, Ph.D. Abstract: Human skin is a very complex and diverse organ that differs not on- ly among different people and races, but also in the scope of one specific human body. In this thesis we tested several procedural approaches to generate textu- re suitable for surfaces of 3D models of various parts of human skin. Besides cellular structures using Voronoi diagrams or Delaunay triangulation, we also in- vestigate generation of the structure of human fingerprints based on the SFinGe method, used for creating synthetic fingerprints for fingerprint recognition algo- rithms in criminology. We conclude that human skin is so diverse that multiple different approaches are needed and each of them is suitable only for some regions. Keywords: computer graphics, procedural modeling, human skin 1
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Microporous materials in organic chemistry (The influence of microporous catalyzers on the synthesis of N-alkylbenzamides)
Čermák, Jan
ČERMÁK, Jan. Microporous materials in organic chemistry (The influence of microporous catalyzers on the synthesis of N-alkylbenzamides). Hradec Králové: Pedagogical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, 2009, 58 pp. Diploma thesis. The following diploma thesis deals the theme of synthesis of N- alkylbenzamides from benzoic acid and primary aliphatic amines. Amines react with benzoic acid, it leads to formation of quaternary ammonium salt, which dehydrates by heating up with formation of amide. Synthesis was made under the solvent free conditions in the microwave field. Above all there was tested the influence of microporous catalysts on the reaction of benzoic acid with hexylamine. Use of acid catalysts SiO2/H3PO4 and montmorillonite KSF had the positive influence on the studied reaction.
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The current position of drill in ELT
Hájková, Jana ; Gráf, Tomáš (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
in English Aim of the thesis: The aim of this diploma thesis is to define the term drill and depict its current use within the English lesson and also assess its role within the language school, where drill is used as a primary teaching technique. Drill is a technique which went through its greatest development when the Audiolingual method became widespread but gradually, throughout the time of the Communicative approach, it began to lose popularity. Despite this, the drill has not been completely forgotten. Not only can we see drill exercises in modern textbooks, but we also encounter drill in the classroom. Drill has been defined in the theoretical section, where its forms have also been described. In addition, the use of drill in various different methods has been further elaborated on and the reasons that led to its downfall. Theoretical part: The aim here is to answer a number of questions: Why do teachers use drill? What are the drawbacks? What do learners prefer as an alternative? Why do some learners deliberately sign up for classes in language schools where drill is mainly used and what results and experience the language school has with drill? Practical part: The author describes her own research, which is based on a questionnaire survey done in a language school where drill is used as...
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Old English causative verbs, their formal build-up and subsequent development
Filipová, Helena ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Tichý, Ondřej (referee)
The present work provides a comprehensive overview of causativity - its definition, classification and characteristics - in a typological perspective. It outlines the development of causativity in English, from Indo-European to Present Day English with main emphasis on the Old English period and the factors that had led to the state of causative verbs at that time. In Research Part, it inquires into the possible competition between morphological and syntactic causatives and its future after- effects with respect to the described typology. Key words: causation, causativity, causative verb, causative opposition, morphological causative verb, syntactic causative expression, labile causative opposition, Old English
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The king as a writer: The image of Anglo-Saxon rulers in the perspective of contemporary artists and society
Kantorová, Aneta ; Panušková, Lenka (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
The present thesis focuses on the importance of the written word as a ruling device of the Anglo- Saxon kings. Due to the availability of historical evidence, the studied period begins in 597 with the arrival of Christian missionaries from Rome and ends prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066. The kings' approach to the written word is analyzed on the basis of surviving literary and iconographic evidence, i.e. on documents composed for or by the rulers, and on the visual images of the rulers as portrayed in surviving manuscripts. The first chapter provides a historical background necessary for the correct interpretation of the examined texts and portraits. This section is aimed at the main concepts discussed in the thesis: medieval authorship, medieval kingship, and the spread of Christianity within the Anglo- Saxon kingdoms. The second chapter offers the analysis of written documents and focuses on the texts composed within the scope of King Alfred's educational and religious reform. The close reading of the OE translations demonstrates the king's use of the texts as didactic tools mainly serving to promote religion and learning within the kingdom. The key texts are Gregory's Pastoral Care, Augustine's Soliloquies, and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; an additional context of the king's life and...
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Non-standard forms of the pronoun "you" in English
Valentínyová, Kristína ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
The present thesis focuses on the non-standard forms of the pronoun "you" which have emerged in the varieties of English in the last centuries. In the Early Modern English period thou-forms (expressing singular) dropped out of the pronominal paradigm, as you-forms assumed the singular reference in addition to the plural one. As a result, horizontal homophony on the level of second person became a possible source of ambiguity. In the following decades, non-standard 2nd person plural (2PP) forms started emerging to fill the lexical gap in the pronominal paradigm in the respective varieties of English. These innovative 2PP forms can be classified into following categories. While some of them are formed synthetically by addition of a plural suffix -s to you, the others are constructed periphrastically by certain quantifiers, numerals or noun phrases standing in apposition to you. The analytical part is a corpus-based study of 100 examples extracted from the following corpora. The examples of you guys and y'all were obtained from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). While the examples of youse were extracted from the International Corpus of English-Ireland corpus (ICE-IC), the sample of you lot was obtained from the British National Corpus (BNC). For each of the 2PP forms, a random sample...
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An analysis of the history of French borrowings' pronunciation from Middle to Modern English on the basis of corpus data
Rosová, Daniela ; Tichý, Ondřej (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis An analysis of the history of French borrowings' pronunciation from Middle to Modern English on the basis of corpus data attempts to account for the influence of Old French borrowings and their pronunciation on the Middle English phonological system with respect to Modern English. The theoretical part of the thesis explains extralinguistic and intralinguistic aspects of language contact and the related lexical and phonological borrowing, which is followed by an overview of the history of the English and French phonological systems and complemented by the corresponding scribal practices. The research is carried out on a list of French loans extracted from and further studied in Oxford English Dictionary. Selected samples are looked up in a Middle English corpus and their probable pronunciation is inferred on the basis of their orthography. The analysis is concerned with five French phonemes absent in the medieval English.
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Morphological Analyser of Old English
Tichý, Ondřej ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Petkevič, Vladimír (referee) ; Kučera, Karel (referee)
The paper describes the construction and testing of an electronic application for automatic morphological analysis of Old English. It introduces resources and methodologies at our disposal based on the state of the art in the field of electronic analysis of Old English and on an overview of Old English morphology. A detailed account of the chosen methodology is offered and a specific description of the implementation is provided: from the acquisition and preparation of the input data and choice of technology to the programming and testing of the results. The resulting recall of 95% can be seen as a success of the project, however, the paper also shows how the recall may be improved. It also discusses further use of the analyser, especially the disambiguation of its results. The paper makes a future semi-automatic morphological tagging of Old English texts a real possibility. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Canterbury Tales as translated into Czech by František Vrba: a linguistic analysis
Slabyhoudová, Zuzana ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
The diploma thesis offers a philological analysis of František Vrba's translation into Czech of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper is composed of three major parts: "Theoretical background", "Hypothesis and Method", and "Analysis". The analysis addresses matters of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, metrical and cultural nature. The analysis focuses on The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale as convenient manifestations of stylistic variation, cross-generic links and structural correspondences and contrasts in The Canterbury Tales. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate the quality of František Vrba's Czech translation.
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