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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 the 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 originated a list of proper nouns that has been studied from various points of view, namely the phonetics, morphology including the word-class competition (Cedar Rapidský - Cedar Rapids) and syntax, translated and non-translated forms (Nová Praha - New Prague). In terms of proper nouns toponymical and antoponymical 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-American interference.
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The Present-Day State of the Local Dialect in the Speech of the Old Generation in the Village of Vír
Ostrýžová, Martina ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Martínek, František (referee)
The M.A. thesis explores the dialect of the village Vír, which is situated in Czech-Moravian boundary dialectal area. The exploration focuses on selected features from phonetics and phonology and morphology, specified on the basis of isoglosses described in the Český jazykový atlas (Czech Dialect Atlas) or in older publications. The research of features followed is based on interviews with old generation informants, which is delimited in accordance with the Czech Dialect Atlas as speakers older than 65. The audiorecordings were further processed, the material was transcribed according to standard rules for dialectological transcription. A comparison with standard works of Czech dialectology (such as Běličʼs Nástin české dialektologie, Český jazykový atlas, Utěšenýʼs Nářečí přechodného pásu česko-moravského. Hláskosloví) shows that the oldest generation speakers in Vír still keep some of the typical traits of the Czech-Moravian dialectal group while other such features are retreating. Key words: Czech-Moravian dialectal group, old generation, local dialect, Vír
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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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The speech of younger generation in Frýdek-Místek
Janáková, Bára ; Chromý, Jan (advisor) ; Dittmann, Robert (referee)
This thesis presents an analysis of the casual speech of high school students in Frýdek-Místek. Use of dialectal features which should be typical both for the area of Frýdek-Místek and for the broader Moravian and Silesian area was analyzed. Thus, we wanted to document the impact of dialect levelling in the speech of younger generation. Data were gathered using sociolinguistic interviews. The sample was very homogeneous and it was designed to represent a specific category of speakers, i.e. high-school students. Mostly, the interdialectal variants were preferred over dialectal ones. One of the features which is still commonly used is the pronunciation of -mě- as [mje].
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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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