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Current status of speech of the oldest generation in the microregion of Lomnice (under the Giant Mountains)
Maierová, Jana ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Synková, Pavlína (referee)
This M.A. thesis contributes to the research of regional marked features in the region under the Giant Mountains (Podkrkonoší), which is a part of the north-eastern dialectal group of the Czech language. The aim of the thesis is to describe spontaneous language of the speakers both in rural (Nová Ves nad Popelkou, Syřenov, Újezdec, Žďár u Kumburku) and urban areas (Lomnice nad Popelkou, Semily), with special regard to phonology and morphology. The research was restricted to the oldest generation only, that means to the people who were born in 1951 and earlier. The data were obtained by recording semi- structured interviews with informants. These data were then analyzed, compared and described in terms of Common Czech, regional and local dialect features. One part of the thesis consists of short description of the idiolect of each spokesman and of speech samples of informants. The results of the research are presented separately for each feature for both groups investigated (rural and urban speakers). In the conclusion of the thesis, the author summarizes the results gained. The rural speakers of the Lomnice microregion still use some dialectal features typical for the region under the Giant Mountains (Podkrkonoší), whereas in the urban areas these features are not present to such a high degree....
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Adaptation of Proper Nouns in Czech-American Periodicals at the End of the 19th Century
Burdová, Kateřina ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the process of adaptation of proper nouns in chosen periodicals of the end of the 19th century that were published in the USA by Czech immigrants. Based on the analysis of periodicals collected from the Library of the Naprstek Museum of Prague there originated a list of proper nouns that has been studied from various points of view, namely the phonetics and phonology, morphology including the word-class competition (Cedar Rapidský - Cedar Rapids), translatedand non-translated forms (Nová Praha - New Prague) etc. In terms of proper nouns toponymical and anthroponymical pertinence has been taken into account. Besides the research of the adaptation of proper nouns itself, the thesis also sums up the existing findings on the Czech-American periodicals and the processes of adaptation of proper nouns in Czech-English interference.
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The Adjective poslední in Czech Lexicon. A Diachronic View
Gabrielová, Hana ; Martínek, František (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
The thesis describes the position of adjective poslední in system of the Czech lexicon with particular reference to Middle Czech and aims to realize its main semantic changes. It results from the dictionaries of the Old Czech lexicon and from the annotated database of evidences which was created on the base of the Middle Czech text corpora. The brief chapter dealing with "pre-Czech" context is following by detailed analysis of lexicography description in the Old Czech dictionaries. The second part summarizes the results of Middle Czech semantic analysis, consisting especially of the component analysis and the analysis of syntagma.
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Czech in Selected Periodicals in the Protectorate
Hudečková, Hana ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
This diploma thesis describes instruments of totalitarian language, it summarizes existing research about language during the protectorate of the official journals. Inforamtion was processed on the created corpus. This corpus war created on base two ofiicial journals Arijský boj and Národní politika. Information was acquired by some available instruments of Openoffice.org 3.3 and software K-words, which one is available online from <www.korpus.cz>. This diploma thesis includes ortography, word- forming sphere, lexical-semantic sphere and morfological sphere. Ortography includes capital letter and puncutation, word-forming sphere includes abbreviations. Lexical- semantic sphere includes representation of Jews, Keywords and Germanism in czech texts. Morfological sphere includes inflection of Germanism, specifically of toponyms. We discovered inconsistency of treatment with capital letter of some words, any words had been evolved during protecorate and any words was written with capital letter from the beginning of the protectorate. We noted to frequent appearance of ironic quotes. We discovered increased frequency of abbrevation in created corpus. Further we discovered rettence Národní politika as to representation of Jews in contrast with Arijský boj, but in both of them was anti-Semitic rhetoric...
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Building a Specialised Corpus of Banatian Czech with a Linguistic Analysis of Selected Features
Vyskočilová, Karolína ; Lehečková, Eva (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
The purpose of this thesis was to build a specialised corpus of Banatian Czech. The theoretical section describes the historical and language situation in the Banat area focusing on its development since the 1990s to the present day. This is followed by a presentation and description of specialised corpora focusing on a corpus of spoken Czech. Building a specialised corpus named BANAT is documented in detail (method of collection, processing and transcription of records, building of corpora and publishing). The analysis of possessive pronouns, negative pronouns and adverbs and enclitics confirms a statistically significant difference between Banatian Czech and the present state of Czech language (in all observed phenomena except enclitics). Keywords Banat, Banatian Czech, Bigr, corpus BANAT, corpus building, Czech language abroad, pronouns, specialised corpora, spoken language
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The Language of a Czech Minority in Repinka in Siberia
Hakenová, Barbora ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
This thesis contributes to the research on Czech dialects in language enclaves abroad. Its objective is to describe the language of the Czech minority in the villages of Repinka, Voskresenka and Novohradka in Russia, Omsk, the territory of Kalachinsk. The research is restricted only to the oldest generations, i.e. people over the age of fifty-five, whose language use is analyzed on these traditional levels of language: phonology, morphology, syntax and marginally also lexicology. The theoretical part of this research deals with the history of Czech immigrants in Tsarist Russia. The study then focuses on the history of Czech immigrants in regions connected with moving to Siberia and on the present philological researches on the Czech community in Omsk region. The following part describes the methods of the data processing. Transcriptions of recorded speeches and prayers in the Czech language set down in Cyrillic alphabet were used as the input data. They were described separately for each language level. Most attention is paid to the elements which help to classify the dialect of Repinka under one of the dialect groups of the Czech language, and furthermore to language elements influenced by foreign languages (especially by Russian). In the conclusion, the author summarizes the obtained results. On...
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Language of Advertisements in the Czech-American Texas Periodical Svoboda
Jirků, Veronika ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to give a detailed description of the language development in advertisements in Czech-American periodical Svoboda. The periodical was issued from 1885 until the 1960s in Texas. Opening chapters sum up the history of Czech immigrants into the USA, present the Czech-American community in Texas emphasising their journalistic activity and characterise both the formal and content aspects of the periodical. The main part focuses on the analysis of four volumes of the weekly newspaper Svoboda based on selected issues from 1886, 1906, 1926 and 1947. Changes emerge on phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic levels. The orthography of certain phenomena is modified as a result of the influence of the English language. The results of this study are compared with previous linguistic research.
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Capitalization in Separately Published Czech New Testaments of the 15th and 16th Century
Nývltová, Martina ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
This thesis deals with the development of the capitalization in the old Czech prints of separately published New Testaments. Seven New Testaments (one incunabulum and six prints from the 16th century) were chosen for this research. Two excerpts were analysed from each of them. We use the method of the articles by Fidlerová, Dittmann and Vladimírová (2010) and Fidlerová (2013). These articles focused on the usage of capital letters in early modern prints of Czech Bibles. We deal with the capitals from the lexical point of view (according to parts of speech). Substantives, adjectives and numerals were divided into particular categories corresponding to the mentioned studies. Afterwards, the percentage of majuscules in each of these groups was calculated. The results are continuously compared with the initial studies. The thesis includes numerous graphs and tables which clearly present the discovered facts. In addition to the previous research we deal with the clusters of a word printed together with the previous preposition.
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Czech Language on Tombstones in Iowa, USA
Měkotová, Barbora ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Eckertová, Eva (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe the Czech language on tombstones in selected cemeteries in the state of Iowa in the U.S., based on photos made in cooperation with Americans and photographs of Iowa cemeteries available on website. The first part deals with the emigration to the United States, the development of settlement Czech immigrants and Czech immigrant communities in Iowa. Then the text mentions the issue of epitaphs as evidence of assimilation of immigrants. Based on available data, examined photographs of tombstones are listed in Annex together with transcribed inscriptions on them. Following section involves linguistic analysis of texts, where is the influence of English reflected. The work is based on studies of E. Eckert, who devoted her work to the Czech language on the tombstones in Texas.
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Czech Lexicography of the 15th Century
Voleková, Kateřina ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Kučera, Karel (referee) ; Pleskalová, Jana (referee)
Mgr. Kateřina Voleková Česká lexikografie 15. století Czech Lexicography of the 15th Century Abstract The thesis deals with Czech medieval lexicography. Based on research into rich manuscript material totalling over 350 items, it describes the development of Czech lexicography from Czech glosses in foreign-language texts and first Latin-Czech glossaries to the flourishing Czech lexicography of the 15th century covering both Latin-Czech, Czech-Latin and multilingual lexicographical works and also infrequently attested Czech monolingual dictionaries. The high number of lexicographical works is divided according to formal and content criteria. With respect to form and macrostructure we discern Czech glosses in Latin and Latin-German glossaries, a bilingual glossaries with Czech as one of the languages, alphabetaries and nomenclators and glossaries lacking an ordering criterion. With respect to the content we distinguish large dictionaries covering as many lexical items as possible on one hand and short glossaries covering only a narrowly delimited part of vocabulary on the other hand. The lexicographical works are supplied with a short description which is in case of short and yet unedited works complemented by an edition using transcription. The thesis also contains description of selected phenomena of...
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