Alternace variant vyjádření přísudku v závislých větách rozkazovacích: korpusová studie

Ryšavý, Vlastislav

This MA thesis is concerned with dependent imperative clauses, more specifically with verbs and adjectival constructions expressing request, suggestion, order, or necessity, as well as with variant alternation of competing variants of expressing the predicate. In these types of sentences, there are three forms in competition that are used to express the predicate: the subjunctive, the putative should construction, and the indicative; e.g. We insist that the negotiations be conducted/should be conducted/are conducted. Calling on established grammar books and previously conducted studies or analyses, the theoretical part of this MA thesis provides a general overview of the issue under scrutiny and describes key terms. Moreover, it primarily serves as a background for the following analytical part. The research tasks and their goals are described in detail in the subsequent section. The first research task was to examine the overall distribution of the above-mentioned competing forms by our selected adjectival constructions (i.e. it is essential that, it is advisable that, it is necessary that) and verbs (e.g. insist, recommend, request + that) using a specific register consisting of legal documents featured in the EUR-Lex corpus (accessed by Sketch Engine). The distribution was checked using 240...

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