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English coordinative conjunction but
Kozachukhnenko, Oksana ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
The objective of the present bachelor thesis is English coordinating conjunction but. The theoretical part elaborates on various background studies on syntactical and semantical features of but. Furthermore, it explores the form and content of constituents coordinated by but, including the analysis of coordination on various levels: level of clauses, phrases as well as individual words. The analytical part of the present research represents a corpus-based analysis of instances containing but with focus on semantic functions of but in the domain of spoken register of contemporary British English. The practical part of this analysis is based on 100 instances containing but excerpted from the SpokenBNC 2014 apart from but in the sentence initial position. The samples were arranged according to frequency of distribution of type of function but conveys. The purpose of this thesis was also to find out whether the coordinated constituents were formed in accordance with the general assumption that the correlation in form and function between the coordinated elements is required. The findings confirm the hypothesis that the distribution of functions of English coordinating conjunction but in spoken register differs from written one. The proposed classification of functions of but developed for spoken...
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English coordinative conjunction but
Kozachukhnenko, Oksana ; Brůhová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
This bachelor thesis will study English coordinating conjunction but. It is a coordinating conjunction which can connect not only the sentences (John is poor, but he is happy. (Quirk et al., 1985: 935)) but also various sentence elements (e.g. a modifier in the sentence He had a demanding but low- paid job in the public service. (Huddleston Pullum 2002: 1311)), and which can express different types of meaning, among which the core type is the adversative meaning. Apart from purely adversative meaning (John is poor, but he is happy.), the conjunction but can express a kind of clarification or correction ('repudiation') of a statement in the first sentence: Jane did not waste her time before the exam,but studied hard every evening (Quirk et al. 1985: 935). The aim of this study will be to collect 100 examples with the conjunction but (excerpted from Spoken BNC2014) and conduct their syntactic-semantic analysis. Each example will be defined according to the type of the constituents connected by means of but as well as the meaning the coordinator expresses will be determined. Attention will be paid to other terms (e.g. rather, also) which may occur in conjunction with but and can be used to guide in the determination of its specific meaning. Keywords: coordination, conjunction, but, adversative sense
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