Trajectories of change in paradigmatic cells in Czech

• Autorzy: Neil Bermel , Luděk Knittl

Warianty tytułu

CS

Trajektorie ve změnách paradigmat českých substantiv

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We examine a well-known phenomenon in the development of the Czech nominal declension system: the gradual supplanting of the original o-stem ending in the locative singular with the u-stem ending. We observe that, contrary to expectations from the literature based primarily on studies of English, this shift has been in progress for a millennium and, in the high-frequency nouns for which we have enough data to observe, the opposing trend is also frequently in evidence: the o-stem ending is introduced to lexemes where it was not found earlier. In the absence of a single, overriding motivation that could have derailed this shift from following the classic ‘S-curve’ pattern, we propose re-examining the retextualization model as a more fitting one for the complex interaction of factors and forms found in languages with complex inflectional morphology.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

corpus linguistics; declension; diachrony; inflection; morphology

CS

diachronie; flexe; korpusová lingvistika; skloňování; tvarosloví

• Wydawca: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: 106
• Numer: 5
• Strony: 247-274
• Rodzaj publikacji: ARTICLE

Twórcy

autor

Neil Bermel

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

autor

Luděk Knittl

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic