Prepositional cases in Czech: toward a typological change

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Result on the web

<a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/so/issue/view/2614" target="_blank" >https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/so/issue/view/2614</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/so.2021/2022.78-79.2" target="_blank" >10.14746/so.2021/2022.78-79.2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prepositional cases in Czech: toward a typological change

Original language description

This article examines the increase in frequency of use of the prepositional noun cases in Czech over the last three decades (1990-2019). The author has based his research on the Czech National Corpus where he created five temporally defined subcorpora containing only journalistic texts from the major Czech daily newspapers. Over the period under study, the share of prepositional cases in the total noun tokens has increased from 26.44% to 28.08% (by 1.64%). The share of cases with proper prepositions has increased the most, while the number of cases with improper prepositions has increased less. The author has identified developmental trends for specific frequented prepositions. According to the author, the increase in the frequency of prepositional cases in Czech is a phenomenon rooted in the “typological dispositions” of the Czech language. However, he considers the stylistic factor (the desire for more explicit, precise expression) to be a factor of more importance, contributing to the increase in the frequency of prepositional cases. On the other hand, some changes in the frequency of use of specific cases, most notably the observed greater frequency of the accusative (+2.21%), are a purely typologically motivated developmental change.

Czech name

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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

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Slavia Occidentalis

ISSN

0081-0002

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

78/79

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

11-23

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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