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Generic use of the articles in French
Čapková, Zuzana ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Loucká, Hana (referee)
Generic use of articles in French This Diploma thesis deals with the generic use of articles in the French language. It is divided into the theoretical and the experimental part. After the broader introduction into the issue of determinants, the most important part of the work treats genericity expressed in French by the definite article in singular and plural as well as by the indefinite article in singular. Firstly, the existing research on the subject of generic articles is studied, including the presentation of various approaches and principal theories, then is formulated proper syntactic and semantic interpretation of genericity which is finally verified in the experimental part of the thesis based on the analysis of model sentences. Keywords determinant, article, genericity, reference, nominal syntagm
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Zero article in contemporary Italian
Pascucci, Marco ; Špaček, Jiří (advisor) ; Štichauer, Pavel (referee)
This work intends to offer a general view of the cases in which the contemporary italian grammar omits the article. The various types of articles and noun phrases will be presented in the first section just briefly, only to give the reader an overall background in which put the cases with the zero article. A special attention will be given to the cases that permit oppositions between the use of an article and the use of the zero article. Therefore what will be examined primarily will be: the plural of undetermined noun phrases, numerals, mass nouns, proper nouns, family nouns, possessives, verb+noun constructions, ellipsis and left dislocations. This work is addressed in a special way to students of italian, who will be able to find, in the different chapters, many explanations to the most occurring questions concerning the appropriate use of the zero article.
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Prenominal and postnominal Adjectives in Italian - a corpus study
VLČKOVÁ, Gabriela
This diploma thesis deals with prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Italian. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part, the theoretical one, describes the basic characteristics of Italian adjectives which are being classified. It also focuses on the prenominal and postnominal adjectives and on the factors that influence their position in classification. The second part, the practical one, works with the web corpus called itWaC. Using the web corpus, there are frequency lists of adjectives in positions ART-ADJ-NOUN and ART-NOUN-ADJ being created. It results in creation of one final list that includes the adjectives appearing in the position both before and after the noun. Then the chosen adjectives are being analyzed in order to verify the initial theoretical knowledge and to specify the changes in meaning, related to the position change of the adjectives.
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The Position of Adjective within the Nominal Phrase in the present-day French
JIRMÁSKOVÁ, Hana
This Bachelor´s thesis deals with the position of Adjective within the Nominal Phrase in the present-day French. The Thesis is divided into two parts. The first one, theoretical part describes adjective, nominal phrase, factors and possibilities of the position of adjective within the nominal phrase. The second one, practical part works with corpus analysis and defends the theoretical knowledge.
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