The Role of Information Structure in Czech Possessive Constructions
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Role of Information Structure in Czech Possessive Constructions
Original language description
The paper deals with the functional properties of possessive constructions. It focuses on internal (adnominal) possession and external (affectedness) possession in Czech. The elements of both construction types (the possessor, the possessum, and the predicate) are first thoroughly investigated from a semantic and pragmatic perspective. In the main part of the article, it is claimed that the emergence of specialized possessive constructions can also be explained as a functional, speaker-oriented preference, based on different needs in terms of information structure. It concerns the hypothesis that the possessive construction types are correlated with different word order arrangements. A case study examining the relative frequency of word order patternsfor each construction type corroborates this assumption. Specifically, for dative external possession, the emergence of the construction can be explained as a discourse preference of speakers to employ the possessor in the topic and the p
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013
ISBN
978-80-244-4060-6
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Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
211-227
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Jun 6, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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