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Simple past tenses in Mark's gospel in Old Czech biblical translations
Bendová, Klára ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Rejzek, Jiří (referee)
The present study focuses on the use and retreat of simple past tenses in representatives of all versions of the Old Czech Bible translation, using the material of the first eight chapters of the Gospel of Mark, accompanied by selected pericopes from chapters 9-16, obtained by manual excerption. The study draws on the current secondary literature, which has recently focused on the transformations of the temporal system of Old Czech in various genres (J. Zdeňková) and in partial probes specifically in the biblical text proper (J. Kyseláková, H. Kreisingerová, K. Voleková). Hypotheses formulated on the basis of the secondary literature were examined using the functions of the Microsoft Excel, statistical calculators at www.socscistatistics.com and the programme R.
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The Czech Language of the Weekly Našinec in 1988
Zittová, Klára ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Bozděchová, Ivana (referee)
This thesis aims to characterize selected features of the Czech language used in the Czech-American weekly Našinec. The material basis consists of scans of ten issues from 1988. The opening chapters (1) focus on Czech emigration to the USA, specifically on the development of the Texas community and Texas Czech language, and are followed by a description of Czech-American press and its language in the second half of the twentieth century. The next part (2) describes the Našinec and its language in the linguistic research to date and then (3) details are given about the sample chosen for further analysis and criteria of selection of features chosen for the analysis (4). The main part (5-7) of the present BA thesis includes quantitative research into three phenomena which are well documented in the sample and at the same time seem to differ from the situation in the contemporary Czech language. These phenomena are: competition of the prepositions k/ke/ku, the infinitive ending and forms of the third person singular present tense of the verb být "to be". The state of affairs detected in Našinec was compared to the period linguistic manuals, studies and relevant language corpora. Generally the comparison confirmed differences from the situation in the contemporary Czech language and retention or even...
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Development of the urban toponymic system in Český Krumlov
Staňková, Kateřina ; Štěpán, Pavel (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores the development of the urban toponymic system in Český Krumlov. The thesis contains a corpus of urbanonyms of the city, which is analysed from several points of view: semantic motivation, the form of names and the relation between the German and Czech language. The thesis also deals with the phenomenon of urbanonymic subsystems. Particular names are studied in their development from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the present.
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Third-Person Preterite Auxiliary in the Gospel according to Mark in Older Czech Bibles
Hedvíková, Marie ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines disappearance of the third-person auxiliary in the compound preterite. The phenomenon chosen was studied in the text of the Gospel of Mark in older Czech Bibles. We intended to build on the previous research of auxiliary distribution - especially in the studies authored by S. Dickey, R. Dittmann, J. Filipová, and J. Zdeňková. We traced the gradual loss of the auxiliary in ten different biblical translations. Our material includes the Old Czech Evangeliary, representatives of all four Old Czech Bible redactions (beginning with the Dresden Bible), and selected printed Bibles up to the Six- Volume Kralice Bible. We manually excerpted all the instances of the compound preterite from the sources. Subsequently, each token was annotated with respect to the presence of the auxiliary, grammatical categories of number and aspect, and the presence of the subject. Then we analyzed the data obtained with the help of the functions of the Microsoft Excel (version 2303), statistical calculators available at www.socscistatistics.com, and the R software. We compared the basic statistics results with previous research, we formulated new hypotheses and possible starting points for further research.
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Czech Loanwords from the African Languages
Wenzlová, Eliška ; Rejzek, Jiří (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with loanwords from African languages in Czech. The theoretical part is devoted to the clarification of concepts related to borrowing, such as language contact, the process of lexical borrowing, motivation for borrowing, and adaptation of loanwords. It also presents several ways of classifying loanwords. This is followed by a characterization of African languages, including the history of their subdivision. In the practical part, loanwords from African languages that have been excerpted from Czech dictionaries and other publications are collected. For each word, where possible, its meaning and information on the source language, original form, intermediary languages, and the date of adaptation into Czech, which were drawn from etymological dictionaries, are given. Key words: lexical borrowing, loanword, African languages, innovations in lexicon, language contact
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Forming and development of non-stem declension typepíseň (song)
Vajdlová, Miloslava ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Pleskalová, Jana (referee) ; Komárek, Karel (referee)
The present work deals with the process of forming a new, non-stem declension type píseň (song) in historical Czech and with its formation and further development from the Old Czech period over the humanist and baroque time, the period of the national revival and the post- revival era up to the beginning of the 20th century. It dwells on determination of causes of the origins of this declension type, the time when the new declension constitutes approximately, on the characterization of the subsequent development of the new declension type and its division into periods. It also determines factors influencing the declension stability or instability of names affected by the process of forming the new type. The thesis also includes description and analysis of long-term historical development of individual groups of nouns, which are involved in the formation of the new declension type. Last but not least, it submits an overview whether and how selected historical period grammars and grammar handbooks (from the humanist and baroque period) reflect the new declension type.
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Laurentius Ventura: De ratione conficiendi lapidis philosophici. The edition of the old Czech text translated by Bavor Rodovský z Hustířan in 1585
Batka, Ondřej ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
This master thesis proposes a commented edition of the text De ratione conficiendi lapidis philosophici by Laurentius Ventura translanted to the Czech language by Bavor Rodovský from Hustířany. The latin text was originaly printed in Basel in 1571 and the Czech translantion of this text can be found in a manuscript named O dokonalé umění chymickém (Of Perfect Art in Alchemy), which is placed in Leiden University Library (VCF 3). This work contains also the summary of editing principles, basic information about the history of the old Czech alchemy literatura with focus on Bavor Rodovský from Hustířany's work, and also the list of emendations. Key words: Old Czech language of the middle ages, Bavor Rodovský from Hustířany, Laurentius Ventura, edition, humanism, alchemy, transcription
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Language Shift in a Czech Community in the Daruvar Area
Flídrová, Eva ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
The thesis deals with the linguistic situation of the Czech community living in the Daruvar region of the Republic of Croatia and presents the contemporary linguistic situation of the ethnic Czech community with a focus on language shift as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. The first part of the paper introduces basic sociolinguistic terms and principles based on research on bilingual communities. Within the framework of factors influencing ethnolinguistic vitality, the Czech minority in Croatia is presented, from the settlement of the territory to the organization of contemporary Czech minority life and the institutional teaching of Czech as a minority language. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of data from questionnaires collected during the research in the area. In addition to demographic data, the questionnaire examines the use of the Czech language in communication with other members of the community. The questions in the second part of the questionnaire are used to assess bilingual dominance. Based on the formulated hypotheses, the attitude towards the Czech language and language choice across three generations of speakers is investigated. The aim of the research is to provide an interim report on the course of language shift in the Daruvar region and to record the current...
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Phonetics and Phonology of Czech in Gęsiniec in the Strzelin District
Musilová, Gabriela ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with a description of phonetics and phonology of the current condition of Czech in Gęsiniec in the Strzelin District, Poland. Its focal point is an analysis of phonetic and phonological phenomena based on records gathered during a field research in the town of Gościęcice Dolne, Strzelin District. Other parts of the thesis are a summary of the history of Gęsiniec, its current state and a description of the linguistic research in the area up to now within the field of Czech dialectology. The latter part of the thesis describes the research methodology, it further includes an analysis of the material and metadata about the informant. A comparison of the conslusions reached with the secondary literature follows. Appendices consist of samples of transcribed records, a blank consent form, a detailed structure of the field interview and an accompanying form and furthermore a picture appendix referred to in the thesis.
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Philological Marginal Notes in John's Gospel of Blahoslav's Translations of New Testament
Dušek, Jan ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
The diploma thesis Philological Marginal Notes in John's Gospel of Blahoslav's Translations of New Testament deals with the characteristics of the philological marginal notes in John's Gospel of Blahoslav's New Testament from the year 1564 and 1568. The life of Jan Blahoslav, the information about Blahoslav's New Testament and the history of the research about his translation of New Testament are summarised in the thesis as well as the tradition of Bible commentary and marginal notes in their European and Czech contexts. In the practical part the thesis presents the number of philological marginal notes explored in both editions, the number of variants in marginal notes and their word class distribution. It tries to find possible sources for the text in marginal notes. It uses Czech printed translations of the Bible (Klaudyán's New Testament, Lukáš's New Testament, Optát's New Testament, Melantrich's Bible of 1556-1557) and Latin translations by Erasmus and Beza and their annotations and Vulgate. As a supplement to the thesis there is also a list of excerpted philological marginal notes from both editions of Blahoslav's New Testament and corresponding places in Bible translations examined.
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