Lexikální sémantika neurčitých kvantifikátorů v současné češtině

• Authors: Vojtěch Veselý

Title variants

EN

The lexical semantics of indefinite quantifiers in contemporary Czech

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

An indefinite quantifier always determines the quantum and usually also assesses it. It quantifies both substances and attributes. The assessment has a binary structure which is formed through a basis of quantification and a quantum that is denoted. This quantum is compared with the basis and assessed as small or large. There are four types of basis: (1) a quantum perceived by the speaker as standard in a certain communication situation (mnoho, trochu, velmi, etc.); (2) a quantum perceived by the speaker as the smallest or the largest desirable one in a certain communication situation (příliš, dost in some contexts); (3) a quantum separating the realization of some process from its non-realization (příliš, dost in some contexts); (4) a quantum which is expressed in the sentence and characterized as potentially invalid (přinejmenším, téměř, etc.). The first three types correspond to autosemantic quantifiers (traditionally nouns, adjectives, numerals and adverbs), the fourth type to synsemantic quantifiers (particles). The synsemantic quantifiers require combination with an autosemantic expression which determines the value of the basis of quantification.

Keywords

CS

neurčitá kvantifikace; autosémantický kvantifikátor; synsémantický kvantifikátor; báze neurčité kvantifikace; implikované kvantum; jazykově materializované kvantum

EN

indefinite quantification; autosemantic quantifier; synsemantic quantifier; basis of indefinite quantification; implied quantum; verbalized quantum

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: 2009
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 175-192
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vojtěch Veselý

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