The Valency of Sorbian and Czech verbs with the meanings ‘to teach’, ‘to learn’ and ‘to get used to’ in the Diakorp, Hotko and Dotko corpora

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Valency of Sorbian and Czech verbs with the meanings ‘to teach’, ‘to learn’ and ‘to get used to’ in the Diakorp, Hotko and Dotko corpora

Original language description

The paper deals with the development of the valency of verbs meaning ‘to teach’, ‘to learn’ and ‘to accustom’ in three standard languages: Czech, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. We examine concordances from diachronic text corpora for these languages. In Czech, we observe for both the simplex and the prefixed verb a stable valency frame for the addressee: učit / naučit se / koho (acc) with the meaning ‘to teach’ (non-reflexive) or ‘to learn’ (reflexive). As for the patient, previously the dative case dominated, but in contemporary standard Czech, the accusative is more typical. In Upper Sorbian, there is a small amount of examples of the prefixed nawučić with the addressee expressed with the dative case instead of the more typical accusative. Moreover, the reflexive verb appears with the reflexive pronoun in the accusative (so) as well as in the dative (sej). In these examples, the verb predominantly has the meaning ‘to accustom’ (non-reflexive) or ‘to get used to’ (reflexive), while the examples with the addressee in the accusative tend to have the meaning ‘to teach’ or ‘to learn’. Such a complemental distribution for the prefixed nawucyś is also found in Lower Sorbian, where there are more examples with the addressee in the dative case. Besides this differentiation of meaning, we also find a very unstable situation in the usage of different variants for the patient in both Sorbian Standard languages, for both the prefixed as well as the unprefixed verbs.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60202 - Specific languages

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-10866S" target="_blank" >GA16-10866S: An analysis of calques in Czech and Sorbian</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeszyty Łużyckie

ISSN

0867-6364

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

9-23

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