The Czech converb confronted with its French and Polish counterparts: Investigation of diachronic factors shaping the properties of converbs

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Czech converb confronted with its French and Polish counterparts: Investigation of diachronic factors shaping the properties of converbs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The aim of this study is to explore the historical factors that have shaped two distinctive features of the Czech converb, known as the transgressive in Czech linguistic tradition. These features, namely subject agreement and the futurate form for conveying Anteriority in future events, set the Czech converb apart from its counterparts in other Slavic languages and most European converbs. We argue that, beyond intralinguistic factors, extralinguistic influences related to standardization (codification) may play a significant role in the evolution of converbs. To investigate these influences, we compare the development of the Czech converb with those in French and Polish (gerondif and imiesłow przysłowkowy, respectively). Diachronic analysis reveals that the specifics of the Czech converb stem from normative interventions in Czech grammatical tradition dating back to the 16th century. Despite a trend towards adverbialization, subject agreement was retained in Czech, while Polish converbs embraced adverbialization. In the 19th century, the standardization of Czech modelled the norm after prestigious archaic usage from the 16th century, maintaining both subject agreement and the futurate form. Corpus analysis of 19th-century texts shows a decline in the frequency of Czech converb forms conveying Anteriority, contrasting with the stable frequency of the corresponding Polish forms. In the 20th-21st centuries, the frequency of all the Czech converb forms has significantly decreased, while French and Polish forms have remained stable. Additionally, the Czech converb has acquired a strong archaistic stylistic mark in contemporary language and its morphology is not part of the active linguistic competence of Czech speakers. We argue that these evolutions are largely influenced by the archaistic and complex norm, the choice of which was motivated by extralinguistic ideological and sociolinguistic factors.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Czech converb confronted with its French and Polish counterparts: Investigation of diachronic factors shaping the properties of converbs

Popis výsledku anglicky

The aim of this study is to explore the historical factors that have shaped two distinctive features of the Czech converb, known as the transgressive in Czech linguistic tradition. These features, namely subject agreement and the futurate form for conveying Anteriority in future events, set the Czech converb apart from its counterparts in other Slavic languages and most European converbs. We argue that, beyond intralinguistic factors, extralinguistic influences related to standardization (codification) may play a significant role in the evolution of converbs. To investigate these influences, we compare the development of the Czech converb with those in French and Polish (gerondif and imiesłow przysłowkowy, respectively). Diachronic analysis reveals that the specifics of the Czech converb stem from normative interventions in Czech grammatical tradition dating back to the 16th century. Despite a trend towards adverbialization, subject agreement was retained in Czech, while Polish converbs embraced adverbialization. In the 19th century, the standardization of Czech modelled the norm after prestigious archaic usage from the 16th century, maintaining both subject agreement and the futurate form. Corpus analysis of 19th-century texts shows a decline in the frequency of Czech converb forms conveying Anteriority, contrasting with the stable frequency of the corresponding Polish forms. In the 20th-21st centuries, the frequency of all the Czech converb forms has significantly decreased, while French and Polish forms have remained stable. Additionally, the Czech converb has acquired a strong archaistic stylistic mark in contemporary language and its morphology is not part of the active linguistic competence of Czech speakers. We argue that these evolutions are largely influenced by the archaistic and complex norm, the choice of which was motivated by extralinguistic ideological and sociolinguistic factors.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Diachronic, Typological, and Areal Aspects of Converbs

ISBN

978-3-11-133544-5

Počet stran výsledku

55

Strana od-do

361-415

Počet stran knihy

475

Název nakladatele

Walter de Gruyter

Místo vydání

Berlin/Boston

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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