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Determiners used with proper nouns - problematic cases
Balcarová, Adéla ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
The present thesis is concemed with determination of proper nouns. While the theoretical part presents a summary of what has already been written about this topic in representative grammars, the analysis concentrates on problematic cases that have not been previously covered. Similarly to common nouns referring to a single object that is unambiguously deterrnined in discourse, proper nouns expres s nongeneric, specific reference. The two basic means of determination of proper nouns are the definite article and the null article (which must be distinguished from the zero article). The use of both of these determiners tends to vary. The aim of this thesis is to describe this variation. It is to be determined, whether it is caused by simply lingusitic factors or by extralinguistic factors as well. The analysis concentrates mainly on the following groups of proper nouns: bridges, waterfalls, cars and musical compositions - proper nouns that have not, so far, been included in any of the representative grammars. Apart from these groups, the focus of the analysis is also on determination of proper nouns previously classified from the point of article usage. Certain cases of variation shall be pointed out and discussed. Lastly, a chapter is dedicated to newly created proper nouns and deterrniners used with them....
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Syntactic, semantic and FSP aspects of ditransitive complementation: a study of blame and provide
Balcarová, Adéla ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Dušková, Libuše (referee)
The present thesis is concerned with the syntactic, semantic and FSP aspects of ditransitive complementation. All these aspects are discussed not only theoretically, but mainly practically in an analysis of two ditransitive verbs: blame and provide. For the purpose of the present analysis, 200 sentences (100 for each of the analyzed verbs) were excerpted from the British National Corpus. The analyzed verbs enter into two possible sentence structures. The first construction includes a subject and verb as well as a direct object and a prepositional object (SVOdOprep); the alternative construction includes a subject and verb as well as an indirect object and a prepositional object (SVOiOprep). One of the points of analysis is a quantitative formulation of the number of occurrences of each of the respective sentence structures for the analyzed verbs within the excerpted material. Within the ditransitive construction we may sometimes encounter object omission of either of the objects (more commonly the indirect object). The analysis concentrates on the possibilities of object omission within ditransitive constructions with the two analyzed verbs. Part-of-speech representation of both objects is also a matter of analysis; there are altogether four possible part-of-speech patterns depending on whether...
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Determiners used with proper nouns - problematic cases
Balcarová, Adéla ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
The present thesis is concemed with determination of proper nouns. While the theoretical part presents a summary of what has already been written about this topic in representative grammars, the analysis concentrates on problematic cases that have not been previously covered. Similarly to common nouns referring to a single object that is unambiguously deterrnined in discourse, proper nouns expres s nongeneric, specific reference. The two basic means of determination of proper nouns are the definite article and the null article (which must be distinguished from the zero article). The use of both of these determiners tends to vary. The aim of this thesis is to describe this variation. It is to be determined, whether it is caused by simply lingusitic factors or by extralinguistic factors as well. The analysis concentrates mainly on the following groups of proper nouns: bridges, waterfalls, cars and musical compositions - proper nouns that have not, so far, been included in any of the representative grammars. Apart from these groups, the focus of the analysis is also on determination of proper nouns previously classified from the point of article usage. Certain cases of variation shall be pointed out and discussed. Lastly, a chapter is dedicated to newly created proper nouns and deterrniners used with them....
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