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The Acquisition of Possesives in German by Czech Native Speakers
Lindnerová, Anna ; Mertins, Barbara (advisor) ; Šimík, Radek (referee)
The Acquisition of Possesives in German by Czech Native Speakers Anna Lindnerová Abstract The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze how Czech native speakers interpret German possessives. The theoretical section provides a detailed overview of the possessive systems in both languages and compares them as well as the concepts of second language acquisition, language transfer, and bilingualism. Additionally, the section explores conceptions of possessive pronouns in several textbooks of German as a foreign language. The translation research conducted in this thesis focuses on how speakers of Czech with German as their second language handle the asymmetries between the possessive pronoun systems of the two languages when translating German sentences with the possessives ihr and sein into Czech. The data reveals that while Czech native speakers understand the fundamental rule of reflexivization of possessives, they often disregard it when translating from German into Czech. To further explore this issue, an experiment was conducted to test how both monolingual speakers of Czech and bilingual speakers of Czech and German interpret the referents of possessives in given sentences. The empirical findings of both parts of the research indicate that several variables play a role in the interpretation of...

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