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Usage of Verbal Adjectives in Contemporary Czech
Fílová, Hana ; Lehečková, Eva (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe and summarize the most characteristic features of verbal adjectives. It is divided into two parts. The first part contains a theoretical description of verbal adjectives. It is based on information included in Czech grammar books, handbooks and research articles. It deals with the description of function, form, classification and use of verbal adjectives in contemporary Czech. This section also contains definitions of some controversial points or inaccuracies of these descriptions regarding verbal adjectives. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the research of selected features, it is focused on following types of verbal adjectives: -cí, -vší, -ný, -tý used in professional and journalistic style. The controversial points or inaccuracies of the descriptions defined in the first section of the thesis are examined on the material of The Czech National Corpus. It is focused on following features of verbal adjectives: the number and nature of the preserved syntactic arguments, word order position of the adjectives and their dominating noun, and the syntactic function of the adjectives.
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Gerundial and ing-participial clauses in written and spoken academic texts
Pajmová, Klára ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
This Master's thesis deals with the gerund and -ing participial clauses in written and spoken academic texts. The theoretical part defines the academic discourse and non-finite verb forms. Gerund and -ing participial constructions are further described regarding their forms and syntactic functions. The sources used for the research part are two corpora of contemporary academic British English: BASE and BAWE. BASE corpus contains transcripts of academic lectures. BAWE corpus is a collection of university-level students' writings. Both corpora contain texts from four different genres and moreover students' assignments are divided into four levels of study. For the purpose of the research part of our thesis, only the genre "Arts and Humanities" and the highest level of study will be taken into account. The practical part analyses the frequency of gerund and -ing participial clauses, frequency of verbs occurring in these constructions and collocations of these verbs. A detailed analysis aims at studying 100 sentences from written texts and 100 sentences from academic lectures. This sample is examined regarding the internal structure of each non-finite clause and its syntactic function. The final section summarizes the results or our research.
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The noun phrase in written and spoken academic discourse
Sládečka, Dušan ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with exploring the differences between the noun phrases in written and spoken academic monologue, focussing on the length of the phrase, its internal complexity and syntactic functions. In the theoretical part of the study, the noun phrase, its constituents, structure and usage are introduced. The noun phrase is introduced as one of the means of complex condensation. The basic characteristics of written and spoken academic language are introduced as well. The practical part of the study is a detailed analysis of 210 noun phrases. The written sample is collected from selected academic articles, whereas the sample of spoken lecture is collected from the lecture database of the BASE corpus. Since the study focuses on two different forms of language, the material is analysed for each of them separately and the results are subsequently compared in the final part of each subsection. The hypothesis of the thesis is that the written sample contains noun phrases with more complex modification, whereas the spoken sample contains more simple noun phrases and more clausal modification. The hypothesis was, for the most part, confirmed.
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English counterparts of the Czech instrumental case
Sláma, Jakub ; Dušková, Libuše (advisor) ; Čermák, Jan (referee)
1 Abstract The present thesis deals with English translation counterparts of Czech non-prepositional instrumental case forms of nouns. The theoretical part briefly describes the Czech case system and the status of the instrumental case, both non-prepositional and prepositional, within this system, and also discusses certain (especially morphological) aspects of the instrumental case. Subsequently, syntactic functions and semantic roles of non-prepositional instrumental case forms are characterized, which serves as a basis for attempting to describe the possible English counterparts of non-prepositional instrumental case forms, especially with respect to the semantics. The methodological section of the thesis includes arguments for a primarily semantic approach (rather than an all-syntactic one). The analysis is based on a sample of 110 non-prepositional instrumental case forms and their English counterparts, i.e. 10 examples for each of the delineated semantic specifications (viz. agent, direction or path, manner, accompanying circumstances, the phasal instrumental case, instrument, material, means, actional means, viewpoint, cause) excerpted from the parallel corpus InterCorp v8. The analysis aims to identify the primary realization form for each semantic specification and to describe semantic and...
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Gerundial and ing-participial clauses in written and spoken academic texts
Pajmová, Klára ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
This Master's thesis deals with the gerund and -ing participial clauses in written and spoken academic texts. The theoretical part defines the academic discourse and non-finite verb forms. Gerund and -ing participial constructions are further described regarding their forms and syntactic functions. The sources used for the research part are two corpora of contemporary academic British English: BASE and BAWE. BASE corpus contains transcripts of academic lectures. BAWE corpus is a collection of university-level students' writings. Both corpora contain texts from four different genres and moreover students' assignments are divided into four levels of study. For the purpose of the research part of our thesis, only the genre "Arts and Humanities" and the highest level of study will be taken into account. The practical part analyses the frequency of gerund and -ing participial clauses, frequency of verbs occurring in these constructions and collocations of these verbs. A detailed analysis aims at studying 100 sentences from written texts and 100 sentences from academic lectures. This sample is examined regarding the internal structure of each non-finite clause and its syntactic function. The final section summarizes the results or our research.
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Usage of Verbal Adjectives in Contemporary Czech
Fílová, Hana ; Lehečková, Eva (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe and summarize the most characteristic features of verbal adjectives. It is divided into two parts. The first part contains a theoretical description of verbal adjectives. It is based on information included in Czech grammar books, handbooks and research articles. It deals with the description of function, form, classification and use of verbal adjectives in contemporary Czech. This section also contains definitions of some controversial points or inaccuracies of these descriptions regarding verbal adjectives. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the research of selected features, it is focused on following types of verbal adjectives: -cí, -vší, -ný, -tý used in professional and journalistic style. The controversial points or inaccuracies of the descriptions defined in the first section of the thesis are examined on the material of The Czech National Corpus. It is focused on following features of verbal adjectives: the number and nature of the preserved syntactic arguments, word order position of the adjectives and their dominating noun, and the syntactic function of the adjectives.
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Apposition in the contemporary French: description, position, function, frequency. Comparison with Czech.
DAŇKOVÁ, Klára
The first aim of this work is to describe the way in which the term apposition is defined in French and Czech linguistics. The second aim is to examine the use of one type of French apposition in journalistic and legal texts and to find out which equivalents are used in the Czech language for these expressions. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part includes a description of different approaches of apposition in the French and Czech language. The practical part begins with a choice of one definition of apposition which will be further used in the corpus analysis. The corpus analysis is conducted by using the corpus InterCorp and its subject is to examine the function and frequency of French apposition in journalistic and legal texts and furthermore to analyse its Czech equivalents.
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