The Teacher and the Frog : Unveiling the Morphosyntax of Gender Shifts in Czech with Nanosyntax

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/18225" target="_blank" >https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/18225</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/lingbaw.18225" target="_blank" >10.31743/lingbaw.18225</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Teacher and the Frog : Unveiling the Morphosyntax of Gender Shifts in Czech with Nanosyntax
Original language description
This study examines the formation of nouns in Czech that show grammatical gender through stem morphemes and three productive suffixes: -a, -k-(a), and -ák. These suffixes are the main morphological exponents across three noun classes – monomorphemic (e.g. kmotr/kmotr-a), bimorphemic (učitel/učitel-k-a), and stem–suffix compounds (žáb-a/žab-ák). Using nanosyntax, the study shows that gender alternations arise from hierarchical syntactic structures rather than lexical or semantic defaults. By investigating noun pairs such as učitel (‘teacher.Masc’) / učitel-k-a (‘teacher.Fem’) and žáb-a (‘frog.FEM’) / žab-ák (‘frog.MASC’), the study shows that masculine forms contain Class and Masc, while feminine forms emerge through the addition of Fem. Suffixes such as -k-a and -ák function as lexicalization solutions, structured through movement-based operations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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