Jak se počítají substantiva v češtině: poznámky ke kategorii čísla

• Autorzy: Magda Ševčíková

Warianty tytułu

EN

How to count nouns in Czech: remarks on the category of number

• Języki publikacji: CS

Abstrakty

EN

The present contribution deals with the grammatical category of number in Czech nouns. On the basis of empirical investigation, we propose the introduction of a new semantic distinction within the forms of nouns, namely the distinction of a simple quantitative meaning versus a pair/group meaning. There are nouns in Czech that typically refer to a pair or to a (commonly encountered) group of entities, not merely to a large amount of these entities (e.g. ruce ‘arms’, vlasy ‘hair’, or sirky ‘matches’). These nouns are combined with set numerals rather than with the basic ones. In the paper, we argue that the above mentioned subcategorization is grammaticalized. A brief outline of the expressions of the pair/group meaning in Czech as compared to some other languages (German, English, Slavonic) is also provided.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

grammatical category of number; singular; plural; pair/group meaning; nouns; numerals

CS

gramatická kategorie čísla; singulár; plurál; souborovost; substantiva; číslovky

• Wydawca: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: 72
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 163-176
• Rodzaj publikacji: ARTICLE

Twórcy

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Jarmila Panevová

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

autor

Magda Ševčíková

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic