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Relation between Evaluativity and Indefiniteness on the Example of Compound Indefinite Pronouns in Czech
Rybová, Martina ; Martínek, František (advisor) ; Berger, Tilman (referee) ; Šimík, Radek (referee)
1 Abstract (English) The thesis deals with the relation between the complex semantic concepts of evaluativity and indefiniteness. The core of the thesis is a corpus-based case study of indefinite pronouns in Czech. Whether or not the indefinite pronouns serve except as indefinite markers also as markers of evaluative meaning, is left aside in the relevant literature. The present studies are only restricted to a few notices about this possible relation. The discovering of such relation follows an assertion of many evaluativity researchers that the expressions with such a function can accumulate in a clause or in a context. As a result, a new methodological approach, so-called lexicography-driven collocation analysis, is proposed here. This approach is based on the comparison between the definition of meaning, which is offered by a monolingual dictionary, and between meaning which a collocate obtains in contact with an in- definite pronoun. With respect to both the collocate is marked with a value from the evaluativity scale. These values enable a comparison, both regarding the evaluative or neutral meaning of the item and regarding the polarity of the evaluative meaning (positive vs. negative). The assignment of these values is subject to criteria defined in advance. In addition, morphosyntactic construc-...
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