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Expressing Causation in the Czech and Spanish Language
Petr, Jaroslav ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee)
Expressing Causation in Czech and Spanish Language The subject of this thesis, as is evident from the title, consists in expression of causation in Spanish and its equivalents in the Czech language. We dealt with the issue of the causation in both formal and practical perspective. As a basic material, we have used not only Spanish, but also Czech philological publications. We based particularly on the article written by Petr Čermák and Pavel Štichauer called Španělské a italské faktitivní konstrukce hacer/fare + sloveso a jejich české ekvivalenty, as well as from selected chapters of Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española written by different authors. The work is divided into a theoretical part (Chapters 1-4) and a practical part (5-6). In introduction, we set ourselves the goals, we have outlined the research methodology using a parallel corpus InterCorp, which we described in detail. At the theoretical level, we discussed the question of the translation direction and its effect on our research. Furthermore, we defined the terms of causation, causative verb and factitiveness, factitive verb, to be able to continue working with it. We have commented the form of the causative verbs in Czech and their most distinctive features, including a test for distinguishing causative verbs from non-causative verbs....
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Expressing Causation in the Czech and Spanish Language
Petr, Jaroslav ; Čermák, Petr (advisor) ; Zavadil, Bohumil (referee)
Expressing Causation in Czech and Spanish Language The subject of this thesis, as is evident from the title, consists in expression of causation in Spanish and its equivalents in the Czech language. We dealt with the issue of the causation in both formal and practical perspective. As a basic material, we have used not only Spanish, but also Czech philological publications. We based particularly on the article written by Petr Čermák and Pavel Štichauer called Španělské a italské faktitivní konstrukce hacer/fare + sloveso a jejich české ekvivalenty, as well as from selected chapters of Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española written by different authors. The work is divided into a theoretical part (Chapters 1-4) and a practical part (5-6). In introduction, we set ourselves the goals, we have outlined the research methodology using a parallel corpus InterCorp, which we described in detail. At the theoretical level, we discussed the question of the translation direction and its effect on our research. Furthermore, we defined the terms of causation, causative verb and factitiveness, factitive verb, to be able to continue working with it. We have commented the form of the causative verbs in Czech and their most distinctive features, including a test for distinguishing causative verbs from non-causative verbs....
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Teaching Mandarin pronunciation: the cliticoids and basic types of phonetic chunks
Třísková, Hana
The paper is concerned with an important group of Chinese words, belonging to the high frequency items of the lexicon: monosyllabic function words such as prepositions, personal pronouns etc. They carry lexical tone, thus have a potential to be stressed. Yet, due to their deficiency in lexical meaning and frequent usage, they regularly behave as unstressed (and phonetically reduced) in connected speech. They receive stress (i.e. full pronunciation) only occasionally, particularly if emphasised. A new term is coined for these words: “the cliticoids”. The author provides their list and reviews the pitfalls of their pronunciation, observing that the Chinese cliticoids display similar features as so called “words with weak forms” found in English. Finally, short (2–3 syllabic) chunks of speech which contain the cliticoids are introduced. They are particularly designed for exercising the unstressed, reduced pronunciation of the cliticoids in L2 teaching. They are termed “phonetic chunks”.
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Selected Aspects of Czech Word Order - Three theoretical approaches
NOVÁKOVÁ, Veronika
Czech word order is considered rather flexible. Clitics are one case of restrictiv word order in Czech. The aim of this thesis is to come to know the concept of clitics in three approaches - classic czech approach, aproach of functional generative description and approach of generative grammar. Clitics are usually understood as one-syllable words, that can?t bear stress and for reasons of prosodic they form an accentual unit with the word that proceeds them or that follows them. If clitics form a unit with a proceeding word, they are referred to as enclitics, if they form a unit with following word, they?re referred to as proclitics. This thesis will deal mainly with pronominal enclitics. Enclitics have quite restrictive placement in the sentence structure. This thesis is divided in chapters. In the first chapter each theoretical approach is discussed. Then I discuss partial topic in works of three authors ? Václav Ertl, František Trávníček and Ludmila Uhlířová. In chapter 4 I define the topic of my research, which is manners of enclitics in complex sentences with infitives. In this chapter I also describe the way the three theoretical approaches discuss this topic. Last chapter is dedicated to the research. At first the methodology is established. Research was processed on the basis of data from the Czech National Corpus (CNC). The description of results comes after, by processing the data from CNC the lists of verbs were built, which verbs ehibit the similar manners of clitics.
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