K presupozici předchozího (stejného/podobného) děje u prefigátů s při- a pře-

• Authors: Luboš Veselý , Vojtěch Veselý

Title variants

EN

On the presupposition of a preceding (identical/similar) action implied by Czech prefixed verbs with při- and pře-

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with prefixed verbs with při- and pře- which imply a preceding action, namely one identical or similar to the action denoted by a given verb (přisladit čaj ‘sweeten tea (a little more)’; převážit rybu ‘reweigh a fish’). The paper addresses these questions: 1) What factors cause the implication of a preceding action to be perceived with varying strength for different verbs? 2) Does the meaning of a preceding action belong to the realm of semantics or pragmatics? The following findings are formulated: 1) Strength of the implication is affected by the amount of resemblance of the implied action to the action directly denoted: if two identical actions with identical result are concerned (přeočkovat dítě ‘revaccinate a child’) the implication is strong. If the verb expresses a change of state (přeformulovat text ‘reformulate a text’) the implication is weaker. 2) The character of the implied meaning is also a factor: if the implication is strongly determined by pragmatics (přisolit ‘add (more) salt’) it is merely loosely associated with the verb. If the implication is not dependent on pragmatics (převážit kapra ‘reweigh a carp’) it seems to be part of the lexical meaning and is strong.

Keywords

CS

presupozice; sémantická presupozice; pragmatická presupozice; mutační slovesa; předponová slovesa

EN

presupposition; semantic presupposition; pragmatic presupposition; mutational verbs; prefixed verbs

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: 2021
• Volume: 82
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 232-248
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Luboš Veselý

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

author

Vojtěch Veselý

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