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Types of temporal verbal constructions in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic
Zbončák, Přemysl ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Bielický, Viktor (referee)
(in English): In this thesis several types of temporal verbal constructions in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic are to be discussed. The main focus was headed on the verbal forms connected with the most occuring auxiliary/temporal verbs kān and ba'a. An inextricable part of the thesis was a detailed insight in the theory of Arabic verbs, both in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Dialect. Our aim was to find out the frequency of these verbal forms, comparing their appearance and their contextual embedding. For the purpose of the analysis an original corpus of texts in Egyptian dialect (more than 700 thousands words) was created. The sources of the corpus came almost exclusively from texts of Egyptian bloggers. Last but not least programm PERL served as the tool for our analysis - statistically and contextually allowing working out of all possible combinations of verbal forms in question.
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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...
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Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages
Novák, Ľubomír ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Blažek, Václav (referee) ; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (referee)
Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages The presented dissertation aims to bring new information concerning the classification of the Eastern Iranian languages. Instead of commonly accepted two branches of Eastern Iranian (Northern and Southern) it seems that there can be classified at least five branches of Eastern Iranian languages, moreover, Avestan can form its own branch, which possibly may include also Khwārezmian. The main issue of the presented thesis was to show archaisms and innovations of the language group in focus. Such task is an issue for numerous studies so the main attention was paid to historical development of Sogdian and Yaghnōbī - two closely related Eastern Iranian languages. Linguistic proximity of Sogdian and Yaghnōbī has been observed shortly after discoveries of the first Sogdian documents in Chinese Turkestan on the beginning of the 20 th century, for a long time it has been supposed that Yaghnōbī is a modern descendent of Sogdian. By analysis of phonology, grammar and vocabulary of both languages I tried to find clues that may answer this question. From diachronic view there is no much difference between Sogdian and Yaghnōbī, individual changes may be interpreted as "dialectal", but there is one phenomenon that influenced different...
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Modern Varieties of Judaeo-Arabic
Morávková, Anna ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Bielický, Viktor (referee)
Modern Varieties of Judaeo-Arabic Author: Anna Morávková Abstract The thesis deals with modern variants of Judeo-Arabic. The theoretical part puts the Judeo-Arabic into a broader historical, social and linguistic context and emphasizes its significance with respect to the Arabic dialectology. The practical part compares the phonological and morphological features of the individual variants of Judeo-Arabic that occur in two dialectal areas (Mesopotamian and North Africa). It is aimed at pointing out the differences between these variants and also their divergence from the major Muslim dialects and, concerning Mesopotamia, also other communal dialects.
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Cult Terminology in Old Hittite Texts
Velhartická, Šárka ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Rychtařík, Marek (referee) ; Součková, Jana (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Ústav srovnávací jazykovědy Jazyky zemí Asie a Afriky Šárka Velhartická Kultovní terminologie starochetitských textů Cult Terminology in Old Hittite Texts Disertační práce vedoucí práce - Doc. PhDr. Petr Vavroušek, CSc. 2011 ABSTRAKT V ČESKÉM JAZYCE Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Ústav srovnávací jazykovědy Jazyky zemí Asie a Afriky Šárka Velhartická Kultovní terminologie starochetitských textů Cult Terminology in Old Hittite Texts Disertační práce vedoucí práce - Doc. PhDr. Petr Vavroušek, CSc. 2011 Cílem disertační práce "Kultovní terminologie starochetitských textů" je vytvoření uceleného přehledu všech dnes nám známých chetitských textů datovaných do starochetitského období s důrazem na texty rituálního charakteru. Základním východiskem jsou detailní kriteria datace klínopisných textů (paleografický rozbor, grafická a lingvistická analýza pramenů) a jejich přesná definice, které tvoří úvod k následné prezentaci jednotlivých textů. Hlavní část práce je rozdělena do dvou oddílů. První z nich je výčet starochetitských textů a jejich překlad do českého jazyka. V případech, kdy se jedná o dosud nezpracované rituální texty, nebo texty, jejichž transkripci je nutno doplnit a pozměnit na základě nově získaných fragmentů, přináší autorka i jejich...
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King lists of the ancient Syropalestine
Čech, Pavel ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee) ; Prosecký, Jiří (referee)
King lists of ancient Mesopotamia are a well-defined and described part of the "scientific" literature of the era, known as the Listenwissenschanft. This work aims to put on the same level the king lists of the neighbouring area of Syro-Palestine - the lists discovered in Ebla, Mari, and Ugarit and published over the last twenty-five years. Its value as a historiographic source is questioned and the lists are understood primarily as an expression of the royal ideology. The study is based on the analyses of individual anthroponyms, examining the lists especially on the basis of intuitively selected criteria and studying their function and relation to the narrative fabric. The main difference is between the lists from Mari, which constitute a part of the Babylonian administrative tradition, and the lists from the west of the region. These are a synthesis of the legendary past, the cult of the dead and the political situation of the time, which is most apparent in the parts dedicated to the oldest rulers. The lists are therefore related to each other in space rather than in time.
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Arabic as a Minority Language in Israel
Sedláková, Martina ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
Arabic as a minority language in Israel The objective of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the status of arabic as a minority language within the specific circumstances of the arabic-hebrew contact in Israel. In this context the language carries symbolic values that participate in forming identity of the native Arabic speakers. Their language is constantely exposed to the influence of hebrew and this study investigates this influence practically. The theoretical part provides the sociolinguistic foundation of the research and characterise the locus of the study. The core of the practical part is the analysis of tha data obtained during the field research in the Israeli city of Tira.
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Verbal forms in the Prague collection of cappadocian tablets
Janský, Martin ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Vavroušek, Petr (referee)
This thesis attends to verbal forms present in the Prague collection of Cappadocian tablets and processes a grammar of these forms. The source of the material is the transliteration of the tablets published in ICK 3 and ICK 4. It contains both theoretical and practical section with a concordance of the forms and a few remarks on the transliteration of some of the forms in ICK 3 and ICK 4 as appendices.
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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.
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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).
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