Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund : Romance Languages Versus Czech (a Parallel Corpus-Based Study).
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Cover -- Contents -- 1. Expressions of potential participation, iterativity, causation, ingressivity and adverbial subordination in the light of parallel corpora (Petr Čermák, Dana Kratochvílová, Olga Nádvorníková, Pavel Štichauer) -- 1.1 Investigation project and its history -- 1.2 Objectives and scope of the present monograph -- 1.3 Organisation of the monograph -- 1.4 Terminological remarks -- 1.4.1 Romance languages under scrutiny and use of the term Romance -- 1.4.2 Use of the terms counterpart and respondent -- 2. Corpus design & -- corpus-based contrastive research methodology (Olga Nádvorníková) -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Corpus-based contrastive research methodology -- 2.2 Corpora used in this study -- 3. Morphologically complex words in Romance and their Czech respondents (Pavel Štichauer, Jan Hricsina, Jiří Jančík, Jaroslava Jindrová, Zuzana Krinková, Daniel Petrík) -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Word-formation: complex vs simple words -- 3.2 Romance and Czech: common and different word-formation patterns -- 3.3 The typology of Czech respondents -- 3.3.1 Typology of Czech respondents of the adjectives with the suffix -bile/-ble/-vewith the suffix -- 3.3.2 Typology of Czech respondents for verbs with the prefix re-/ri- -- 3.4 The modal suffix -ble/-bile/-vel -- 3.4.1 Data elaboration and analysis -- 3.4.2 Quantitative distribution of the types -- 3.4.3 Discussion of various examples -- 3.5 The iterative prefix re-/ri- -- 3.5.1 Data elaboration and analysis -- 3.5.2 Quantitative distribution of the types -- 3.5.3 Discussion of various examples -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- 4. Causative constructions in Romance and their Czech respondents (Petr Čermák, Dana Kratochvílová, Petra Laufková, Pavel Štichauer) -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Definition of causativity and its forms of expression -- 4.2 Causativity in Romance languages. 4.2.1 Analytic type -- 4.2.2 Synthetic type -- 4.2.3 Characteristics of the romance construction hacer/fare/faire/fazer + infinitive -- 4.3 Causativity in Czech -- 4.3.1 Word-formatting causativity -- 4.3.1.1 Verbs derived from another verb -- 4.3.1.2 Verbs derived from an adjective -- 4.3.1.3 No change in the lexical basis, expressing causativity through a prefix roz- -- 4.3.2 Semantic causativity -- 4.3.2.1 Suppletive types -- 4.3.2.2 Causative interpretation resulting from syntax -- 4.3.3 Analytic causativity -- 4.3.3.1 Causative verbs followed by a subordinate clause -- 4.3.3.2 Causative verbs followed by a nominal syntagma -- 4.3.3.3 (Semi-)causative verbs followed by an infinitive -- 4.4 Our typology of Czech respondents -- 4.5 Methodology -- 4.6 Causative constructions in Romance - formal comparison -- 4.7 Analysis of Czech respondents -- 4.7.1 Primary Czech respondents -- 4.7.1.1 Type 3 - shodit type (hacer caer / far cadere / faire tomber / fazer cair) -- 4.7.1.2 Type 8 - what makes you think that > -- proč myslíte? ('why do you think that?') -- 4.7.1.3 Type 4 - dát vypít type -- 4.7.2 Secondary Czech respondents -- 4.7.2.1 Type 5 - dohnat k slzám type -- 4.7.2.2 Type 9 - other translation -- 4.7.2.3 Type 7 - způsobit, že tál type -- 4.7.2.4 Type 1 - rozplakat type -- 4.7.2.5 Type 2 - posadit type and type 6 - způsobit tání type -- 4.7.2.6 Type 10 - no translation -- 4.8 Conclusions -- 5. Ingressive periphrases in Romance and their Czech respondents (Dana Kratochvílová, Jaroslava Jindrová, Pavel Štichauer, Eliška Třísková) -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Verbal periphrases in Romance -- 5.1.1 Approaches to verbal periphrases and the goal of our study -- 5.2 Aspect and Aktionsart -- 5.2.1 Aspect and aktionsart in Romance languages -- 5.2.2 Aspect and aktionsart in Czech -- 5.2.3 Verbal periphrases and the relationship to aspect and aktionsart. 5.2.4 Ingressive MoA -- 5.2.4.1 Initial ingressivity in Romance languages -- 5.2.4.1.1 Derivative ingressive MoA in romance -- 5.2.4.1.2 Analytical ingressive MoA in romance -- 5.2.4.2 Initial ingressivity in Czech -- 5.2.4.2.1 Derivative ingressive MoA in Czech -- 5.2.4.2.2 Analytical ingressive MoA in Czech -- 5.3 Corpus analysis -- 5.3.1 Methodology -- 5.3.2 Results of the corpus analyses -- 5.3.2.1 Ingressive constructions expressing the mere beginning of a process -- 5.3.2.2 Ingressive constructions expressing the beginning of a process and the notion of effort by part of the subject -- 5.3.2.3 Ingressive constructions expressing the beginning of a process and the notions of suddenness and nexpectedness -- 5.3.2.4 Ingressive constructions expressing the beginning of a process and the notions of suddenness, abruptness and previous retention -- 5.3.2.5 Ingressive constructions expressing the beginning of a process and the notions of suddenness, abruptness and vehemence -- 5.4 Concluding remarks -- 6. The Romance gerund and its Czech respondents (Olga Nádvorníková, Leontýna Bratánková, Štěpánka Černikovská, Jan Hricsina) -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 Morphology of the Romance gerund -- 6.2 Romance gerund as a converb -- 6.2.1 Syntactic functions of the romance gerund -- 6.2.2 Semantic interpretation of the (adverbial) Romance gerund -- 6.3 Typology of Czech respondents of the romance gerund -- 6.4 Data elaboration and quantitative analysis of the Romance gerund -- 6.4.1 Factors influencing the frequency of the Romance gerund -- 6.4.2 Syntactic functions of the Romance non-periphrastic gerund -- 6.5 The adverbial Romance gerund and its Czech respondents -- 6.5.1 Semantic types of the Romance adverbial gerund and the Czech transgressive -- 6.5.2 Czech respondents of the Romance gerund -- 6.5.2.1 Finite verbs as respondents of the Romance gerund. 6.5.2.1.1 Coordinate finite clause as a respondent of the Romance gerund -- 6.5.2.1.2 The subordinate finite clause as a respondent of the Romance gerund -- 6.5.2.2 Nominalisations as respondents of the Romance gerund -- 6.5.2.3 Non-finite verb forms as respondents of the Romance gerund -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7. Formal expressions vs abstract linguistic categories: coming to terms with potential (non-volitional) participation, iterativity, causation, ingressivity and adverbial subordination (Petr Čermák, Dana Kratochvílová, Olga Nádvorníková, Pavel Štichauer) -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Correspondences of the analysed phenomena across Romance languages -- 7.2 Czech respondents of the analysed phenomena vs systemic counterparts -- 7.3 Exploiting the parallel corpus in search of language universals and abstract categories -- Bibliography.