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The verb smět and its competitors in the corresponding modal meanings in contemporary Czech texts and Czech texts of 1550-1650
Čermáková, Alena ; Kučera, Karel (advisor) ; Rejzek, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation is dwelling on the comparison of meanings and functions of verbs (ne)smě? (may, mustn 't) and their meaning a function competitors in the Kralice Bible and in the ecumenical translation of the Holy Scriptures. It is divided into two parts. The first one tries to put (ne)smět into a wider language context. The introductory chapter is dedicated to language fields, which means of expression (ne)smět belongs to, it means to modality, voluntative modality and communicative function of speech. Various conceptions of their delimitations and divisions are shown there. The next part is dwelling on modal verbs. Their specific semantic and morfosyntactic features, the process of forming of this group of verbs and various views of the number of its members are introduced. The fourth chapter is dwelling on verbs (ne)smět, their etymology, way of their presentation in various Czech dictionaries and meanings and functions, which they expressed and express now. In the final chapter of theoretical part the theory of functional semantic field, which was one of the methodological starting points of this work, is briefly represented, then the competitors of (ne)smět in its individual meanings and functions are mentioned. The second part of the work is dedicated to the research itself. At first the...
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