Rozpor mezi formou a funkcí: specifika infinitivu ve vybraných valenčních pozicích

• Authors: Jarmila Panevová

Title variants

EN

A contradiction between form and function: the specificity of infinitives in selected valency positions

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Although the Czech language has two forms of infinitive (active and passive) in its morphological paradigm, infinitive constructions can be found where this opposition is not employed and the active vs. passive interpretation depends on the context. This article focuses on active infinitives which convey meanings primarily expressed by passive infinitives. The verbs which govern such infinitives are divided into several classes: (a) potřebovat [to need], zasluhovat [to deserve], (b) verbs of movement, such as poslat [to send], přinést [to bring], odvézt [to take away], (c) žádat [to require], odmítat [to refuse]. The competition between the active forms of the infinitive and the analytic passive forms, coreference between the valency members of the governing verbs and the hidden valency member of the infinitive are analyzed. Quantitative insights into how the phenomenon under study is represented in the Czech National Corpus are provided. The article concludes with a terminological proposal to complete the system of functions in the domain of infinitive constructions.

Keywords

CS

forma; funkce; aktivní infinitiv; pasivní infinitiv; koreference; valenční člen; konkurence; čeština

EN

form; function; active infinitive; passive infinitive; coreference; valency member; competition; Czech

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 263-272
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jarmila Panevová

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