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The Czech word prý/prej: possibilities for functional and semantic differentiation
Hoffmannová, Jana ; Kolářová, I.
Ways of quoting, reproducing, paraphrasing the speech of somebody else or one´s own speech; prý as a neutral signal of quoting, as a modal particle signalling the speaker´s uncertainty, doubts, etc.of the quoted utterance; prý as a textual transition between direct and indirect speech. Data from Czech National Corpus enable to study combinations of prý with other modal particles, to analyze syntactic and stylistic distribution of prý (its specific functions in narratives, in press interviews, etc.).

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