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Time Prepositions in Writings of Czech Deaf
Patočková, Linda ; Cícha Hronová, Anna (advisor) ; Richterová, Klára (referee)
The thesis deals with the written Czech language of the Czech Deaf, specifically with time prepositions in written Czech language of the Czech Deaf. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with feature and classification of Czech prepositions, especially time prepositions, based on Czech linguistic studies, and deals with attributes of written Czech language of the Czech Deaf related to use of prepositions. The practical part of the thesis includes research focused on usage of time prepositions in writings of the Czech Deaf and includes the analysis of qualities in the usage of prepositional phrases by the deaf students of secondary school for the hearing-impaired in Hradec Králové and analysis of written texts of Czech deaf students of secondary schools for the hearing-impaired. The thesis is based on Czech and foreign studies related to relevant topics and it should be a contribution to teachers who work in Czech shools for hearing-impared.
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Production of weak forms of prepositions by non-native speakers of English
Kozáková, Tereza ; Červinková Poesová, Kristýna (advisor) ; Malá, Markéta (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to reveal and describe to which extent non-native speakers of English from different L1 backgrounds employ weak forms when producing prepositions. The theoretical part focuses on vowel reduction and its importance for the natural rhythm of English. This concept is further explored from the Lingua Franca Core perspective and its approach to teaching vowel reduction. In the practical part, the analysis of a series of recordings is carried out. The recordings were taken from the L2-ARCTIC speech corpus of non-native English (Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese). The purpose of the analysis is to explore whether and how speakers with different L1s reduce vowels in canonically weak forms of prepositions. The focus is placed on the quality and quantity of vowels in said prepositions and their duration with regard to their occurrence in either initial or medial positions. The average vowel duration is then compared to the referential vowel duration in General British. KEY WORDS ELF, prepositions, vowel duration, schwa, vowel reduction, weak forms
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Prepositions Expressing Cause, Concession, Purpose and Condition in the Present-Day French
JANISCHOVÁ, Olga
The bachelor thesis is concerned with the prepositions expressing cause, concession, purpose and condition in the present-day French. This thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part defines the prepositions from the positional, functional and lexical point of view. Syntactic and semantic functions of the prepositions are also here described. The aim of this part is to characterize causal, concessive, proposal and conditional relations and to introduce the prepositions expressing these semantic relations. The practical part is dedicated to the contrastive corpus analysis of the French prepositions and the searching of their Czech equivalents.
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The dynamics of the development of Ruthenian dialects in Slovakia and Ukraine as exemplified by prepositions
Vašíček, Michal
This article deals with the dynamics of the vocabulary of Ruthenian dialects in two regions of two states – eastern Slovakia and Transcarpathia in Ukraine. It focuses on prepositions as well as conjunctions and particles, which are function words with a high frequency of occurrence. The analysis is based on dialectal material obtained during our own field research, carried out since 2011 in this area, specifically in the municipalities of Ubľa and Malyj Bereznyj, lying close to the Slovak-Ukrainian state border. Here, until World War II closely related Ruthenian dialects had been evolving in sociolinguistically identical conditions. But after World War II, they were separated by the Czechoslovak-Soviet border and came under the influence of different literary languages – Slovak, on the one side, and Ukrainian and Russian on the other. Due to levelling processes oriented to different literary languages, the originally closely related dialects have considerably diverged from each other. Comparing the current material with older dialectal materials, we will try to document more recent influences of literary languages on the development of Ruthenian dialects.\n
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Semantic analysis of Swedish phrasal verbs with consideration of differences between prepositions and adverbs
Šípková, Jitka ; Štajnerová, Petra (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
(anglicky): In my thesis I analyze how Swedish verbal particles change semantics of the verb. Mainly I compare different types of verbal particles: bound and free particles, prepositional and adverbial particles. I observe how meaning of the verb + particle changes from local to metaphorical and further to lexicalized and grammaticalized meaning. Theoretical observations are based on general linguistics, particularly on premises of functional approaches. In the practical part of the thesis I analyze behavior of particles ut and av on a corpus sample. In the final part I compare conclusions made based on the literature with analysis of the language sample. The results show that most often verb + particle are lexicalized phrases. That applies even in cases, when the particle decides whether the action expressed by the verb has reached its end or not, which I considered partially grammaticalized in the theoretical part. Many of the lexicalized particle verbs have transparent meaning, which is possible to duplicate based on analogy. Such particle verbs with metaphorical, transparent meaning are source for great variability in the system of Swedish particle verbs. In the final part of the thesis I show parallels between Swedish verb particles and Czech verbal prefixes. These differ mainly in that the...
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Time Prepositions in Writings of Czech Deaf
Patočková, Linda ; Cícha Hronová, Anna (advisor) ; Richterová, Klára (referee)
The thesis deals with the written Czech language of the Czech Deaf, specifically with time prepositions in written Czech language of the Czech Deaf. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with feature and classification of Czech prepositions, especially time prepositions, based on Czech linguistic studies, and deals with attributes of written Czech language of the Czech Deaf related to use of prepositions. The practical part of the thesis includes research focused on usage of time prepositions in writings of the Czech Deaf and includes the analysis of qualities in the usage of prepositional phrases by the deaf students of secondary school for the hearing-impaired in Hradec Králové and analysis of written texts of Czech deaf students of secondary schools for the hearing-impaired. The thesis is based on Czech and foreign studies related to relevant topics and it should be a contribution to teachers who work in Czech shools for hearing-impared.
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Cooccurrence of Primary Prepositions in Contemporary News Texts (Corpus Survey)
Komrsková, Zuzana ; Lehečková, Eva (advisor) ; Adam, Robert (referee)
Diploma thesis is concentrated on the phenomenon called coocurance of primary prepositions. It is a construction of two prepositions directly standing next to each other, where each of them is part of another prepositional phrase. The first preposition is not directly in front of its phrases, but there is the second prepositional phrase inserted between the first preposition and its phrases. The aim of the thesis was to find these structures in the corpus SYN2009PUB, and their description of the semantic and formal aspects. Inserted phrase is in most cases syntactically incorporated into sentence, where takes the adverbial or object distinction. Comparison in length (in number of words) of inserted phrase with the phrases, which can be inserted, showed that during insertion depends on the length of the transferred phrases. The paper outlines other factors affecting coocurence, e. g. pronounceability.
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To the usage of chosen prepositions in the current Czech through a prism of Czech as a foreign language
Hejlová, Tereza ; Hrdlička, Milan (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee)
v angličtině: This thesis deals with the issue of how to present prepositions in teaching Czech for foreigners. This topic has not been dealt with in detail yet, therefore its main aim is to call attention to some problematic moments in the presentation of prepositions in textbooks of Czech for foreigners. The thesis briefly describes the history of teaching methods in terms of presentation and the importance of grammar as well as the basic characteristics of the Czech prepositions are described based on their interpretation in selected studies. A sample of textbooks of Czech for foreigners ilustrates how prepositions are presented to students. The thesis also attempting to clarify the meaning of chosen prepositions of manner and formulate some general recommendations on how to effectively present Czech prepositions to foreigners.
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Prepositions vs. prepositional article in contemporary Italian with particular regard to the preposition "in" and "nel"
Báčová, Pavla ; Špaček, Jiří (advisor) ; Štichauer, Pavel (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to compare the occurrence ratio of the preposition proper IN and contracted form NEL, to evaluate the results of the research and to arrive at new uses of prepositions in contemporary Italian. In the first part of my bachelor thesis, I will focus on the theoretical part in which I will summarize and describe individual monosyllable "proper" prepositions and prepositional articles. In the practical part of my thesis, I will examine the ratio of appearance of the prepositions "in" and "nel" and a, con, su (appearing in concurence) on the particular examples, using the online Italian corpus CORIS/CODIS and La Repubblica. Finally, I will evaluate the results of the study.
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Time Prepositions in Writings of Czech Deaf
Patočková, Linda ; Cícha Hronová, Anna (advisor) ; Richterová, Klára (referee)
The thesis deals with the written Czech language of the Czech Deaf, specifically with time prepositions. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes knowledge about the written Czech language of the Czech Deaf, the ways of expressing tense in Czech language and in Czech sign language and gives the description of Czech prepositions, especially Czech time prepositions. The second part of the thesis is practical and includes the research focused on using time prepositions in writings of the Czech Deaf. The research includes the analysis of written texts and also testing of qualities in the usage of prepositional phrases by pupils and students of schools for the hearing-impaired. The thesis is based on Czech and foreign studies related to relevant topics.
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