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Progressive Verbal Periphrasis être en train de + INF and its Respondents in Czech
Kyzourová, Kateřina ; Nádvorníková, Olga (advisor) ; Mudrochová, Radka (referee)
The thesis deals with expressing the progressive aspect in the French and Czech language. The study is based on the corpus analysis of the collocation être en train de + inf with the main focus on its possible meanings depending on various contexts and types of texts. Simultaneously, the tendencies in its Czech equivalents are observed. The theoretical part of this thesis is dedicated to the progressive aspect as a verbal property and its possible expressions in French and in Czech. It is focused more in detail on the collocation être en train de + inf. Moreover, a summary of its different meanings, based on the information from the scientific literature and dictionaries, is presented. The empiric part verifies the summary created in the theoretical part by observing the information from the paralel French-Czech corpus InterCorp. Simultaneously, this part is also oriented on the Czech equivalents of the collocation. Finally, an amended and enriched summary of the meanings of this collocation in various contexts is created. Keywords: Czech, French, progressive aspect, verbal periphrasis, corpus analysis
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