Gemination and clitic order in Czech : historical development and theoretical insights

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Gemination and clitic order in Czech : historical development and theoretical insights

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This corpus study investigates the ordering of the second person auxiliary "s" and the reflexive "se", which together form the cluster "se=s", in Czech. This ordering is puzzling, as Czech auxiliaries typically precede the reflexive, not the other way around. Building on Sedláček's (1994) insights, I propose that, rather than syntactic factors, this ordering is more likely influenced by a phonological constraint against geminates such as /ss/ in Present-Day Czech. This constraint was not active in earlier stages of the language, where the cluster was ordered as "s=se". I support this thesis by presenting the identical development in historical geminated /ss/ formed at the boundary between prefixes/prepositions and the following NP/VP (e.g., ssaditi "take down", s synem "with a son"). These geminates were resolved in the 19th century ("ssaditi" &gt; "sesadit", etc.), just like the auxiliary=reflexive cluster ("s=se" --&gt; "ses"). Finally, I offer a tentative formal analysis of this diachronic phenomenon couched in mixed approach, employing a mixed approach that combines the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory (cf. Franks and King, 2000).

Název v anglickém jazyce

Gemination and clitic order in Czech : historical development and theoretical insights

Popis výsledku anglicky

This corpus study investigates the ordering of the second person auxiliary "s" and the reflexive "se", which together form the cluster "se=s", in Czech. This ordering is puzzling, as Czech auxiliaries typically precede the reflexive, not the other way around. Building on Sedláček's (1994) insights, I propose that, rather than syntactic factors, this ordering is more likely influenced by a phonological constraint against geminates such as /ss/ in Present-Day Czech. This constraint was not active in earlier stages of the language, where the cluster was ordered as "s=se". I support this thesis by presenting the identical development in historical geminated /ss/ formed at the boundary between prefixes/prepositions and the following NP/VP (e.g., ssaditi "take down", s synem "with a son"). These geminates were resolved in the 19th century ("ssaditi" &gt; "sesadit", etc.), just like the auxiliary=reflexive cluster ("s=se" --&gt; "ses"). Finally, I offer a tentative formal analysis of this diachronic phenomenon couched in mixed approach, employing a mixed approach that combines the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory (cf. Franks and King, 2000).

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GF23-04856K" target="_blank" >GF23-04856K: Chování klitik v češtině a slovinštině</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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