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The substantivised infinitive in French
Švidrnochová, Lenka ; Duběda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
v anglickém jazyce: This bachelor thesis deals with the substantivised infinitive in contemporary French. After defining the basic terms (noun, infinitive and substantivisation) the characteristics of the lexicalized subtantivised infinitives and the related infinitive forms are observed in detail. Both of these categories are analyzed from the semantic, morphological, syntactic and marginally also diachronic perspective with simultaneous consultation of authoritative French grammars, dictionaries and other scholar works. The second part which is the actual focus of the work concentrates on marginally used substantivized infinitives which have not been lexicalised yet. The research is carried out on the basis of the French corpus FRANTEXT.
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English loanwords in French IT Terminology
Štojdlová, Alena ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
The present Bachelor's thesis presents the topic of English Loanwords in French information technology terminology. The French terminology of this fast growing industry is not standardized for now. The classification of loanwords as well as the insight into the history of interaction between the two languages is introduced in the theoretical part. The practical part comprises of an analysis of the use of 20 information technology terms through a questionnaire distributed among 98 respondents.
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Collective nouns in French
Svoboda, Jáchym ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
This work is studying collective nouns in French. Its aim is to present this undergroup of nouns and to examine if different places are acceptable at the position of collective animated nouns. After the evaluation of the questionnaire, this work arrives to the conclusion that nouns of places can manage this part.
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Feminization of job titles : the case of the word professeur
Michalková, Dominika ; Nádvorníková, Olga (advisor) ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (referee)
Women constitute a significant part of the working environment and occupy positions that previously had exclusively male character. In the French language, we can still find some occupations, titles and functions, where the feminine form is not always accepted and its use varies. This also concerns the word professeur and its semantic field. This work will address this issue. It will study the differences among francophone countries on the basis of their language policies of the feminization of the professions and seek to identify trends in the adoption of feminized forms of profession words with regard to each country. Based on the research this work will analyze the attitude of the speakers towards feminization of professions in education on the basis of sociolinguistic factors, namely the country of origin. The analysis will be complemented by the corpus research of words with similar lexical meaning.
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French ordinals in diachronic perspective
Chovanová, Lucie ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
Numerals in French language represent very rich and to a large extent complicated grammatical system. This thesis focuses on the ordinal numerals which represent a very interesting subject of research, especially in terms of their historical development. As a preface to this problematics, we will, at first, generally characterize numerals in contemporary French normative grammar, explain their classification and then further focus on the cardinals and ordinals that are closely related from a diachronic point of view. This BA thesis aims to explain the development and functioning of ordinal numbers in French from their Latin origins to the present and also their specifics. Using the Frantext, we will illustrate the competition between different forms of ordinal numbers as well as their competition with the cardinals. Numeral "the second" with its two forms: second and deuxième, represents a specific case in this category. Its usage requires certain rules, which are however not always respected. By the means of a questionnaire designed for native speakers, we will try to analyze this phenomenon and consider whether the ordinals represent a category in decline.
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The Use of the Word comme in contemporary French (Construction « être + ADJ + comme »)
Konštiaková, Kristína ; Nádvorníková, Olga (advisor) ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (referee)
The work is dealing with the French word comme, whose polysemy involves a problematic determination of the part of speech. The aim of theoretical part is to map all the cases of use of this word by using reference dictionaries and specialized literature. The practical part examines in more detail the use of comme in comparison. By means of language corpora, comme is studied in the construction where preceded by the verb be and an adjective (être + ADJ + comme). This structure is analyzed from the frequency point of view in subcorpora representing different types of texts. The frequency analysis includes qualitative analysis of the right context. Another goal is to identify the occurrences with a figurative meaning and to search for the most frequent adjectives as candidates figuring in collocations or perhaps even in idioms. Finally, the potential collocations are contrasted with dictionaries either to confirm them or to discover new ones, yet not lexicalized. Key words: comme, corpus, text type, comparison, collocation
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French pronoun on and its counterparts in Czech and Spanish
Vítková, Alžběta ; Nádvorníková, Olga (advisor) ; Mudrochová, Radka (referee)
This bachelor's thesis French pronoun on and its counterparts in Czech and Spanish deals with the referential plurality of the French pronoun on. A special attention is paid to the degree of reference's determination. The theoretical part presents different perspectives of the study of this pronoun and of its meaning. Then, evolution of its use as well as types of its counterparts in Czech and Spanish are introduced. The empirical part analyses data excerpted from the parallel corpus InterCorp. It demonstrates that counterparts in Czech and Spanish are usually classified in different formal types. However, the degrees of reference determination in Czech and Spanish correspond in more than a half of instances. Research shows that the reference's determination is defined by the context (immediate, large and extralinguistic as well), nevertheless an objective universal determination remains impossible. Moreover, legal texts tend to employ the lowest degree of determination while the degrees of determination in fiction seem to be quite equally spread.
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The gender of French nouns in -a
Jochcová, Magdaléna ; Duběda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the gender of French nouns in -a. The theoretical part introduces general informations and characterisations of substantival lexical cathegory and grammatical gender. This part also describes priciples of French lexicon extension, introduces history of French loanwords transmission, characterizes generally loanword and other related phenomenons. The practical part is focused on the main research, which is realized by excerption from French explanatory dictionary le Petit Robert. The outcomes are semantically as well as etymologically described and analyzed. Gender fluctuation analysis and frequency examination are based on French corpus FRANTEXT. The end of this study briefly presents nonlexicalized neologisms which were found by visual inspection during the research. Key words: noun, grammatical gender, loanword, gender assignment, gender fluctuation, French
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Language means of propositions with appeal communicative function - recommendations, advices
Kozáková, Irena ; Loucká, Hana (advisor) ; Nádvorníková, Olga (referee)
This thesis "Language means of propositions with appeal communicative function - recommendations, advices" is focused on analysis and on ordering of language means which are characteristic for the mentioned type of propositions. The propositions with the appeal communicative functions represent a broad spectrum of varied propositions. This thesis is concentrated on the written form, in concrete terms on texts which indicate what and how to do something. The special type of these texts is called directions and forms the main object of this work. This thesis is devided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part refers at first to the used published citations and explains the basic linguistic terms connected with the propositions with appeal communicative function. Afterwards, it gives the description of the language means that express the appeal and of the syntactical structures of these propositions. Finaly, this part describes the varied texts with appeal communicative function-recommendations, advices and specifies the concrete type of later analysed texts - the directions - as well as their classification into three groups: 1) directions for use of concrete products, 2) instructions to get rid of concrete problems and 3) itinerary. The practical part studies progressively nine...
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