Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110701104-015" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110701104-015</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110701104-015" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110701104-015</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora
Original language description
In Czech, a West Slavic language, there are two major type nouns: druh ‘kind/sort’ (a group of individuals sharing the same characteristics, or a collection of characteristic features), and typ ‘type’ (a model, example, or an individual with characteristic features; a group of individuals or things with the same features). While the type meaning of druh developed from the animate reading (‘member of a group; companion’), typ is a nineteenth-century borrowing, arguably via German, which originally goes back to Latin and Greek. In this exploratory corpus-driven study, we investigate the discourse functions of these nouns (following Kolyaseva and Davidse 2018) by analysing their distributional patterns in informal spoken Czech as represented by the ORAL v.1 corpus (Kopřivová et al. 2017) and in original Czech fiction translated into English. By means of statistical analyses, we determine which contextual properties condition a preference for one or the other.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Type noun constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages. Semantics and pragmatics on the move
ISBN
978-3-11-070108-1
Number of pages of the result
47
Pages from-to
571-617
Number of pages of the book
730
Publisher name
de Gruyter Mouton
Place of publication
Berlin
UT code for WoS chapter
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