Poznámky k syntaxi předložky před

• Authors: Pavel Caha

Title variants

EN

On the syntax of the preposition před

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I look at the syntax of the preposition před ‘in front of’ in its temporal uses, where it means ‘before’ or ‘ago.’ In particular, I analyze PPs such as před hodinou, lit. in front of an hour, meaning ‘an hour ago,’ and I argue that while ‘an hour’ behaves like a complement of the preposition from the perspective of word order and case, semantically it is a measure phrase. I propose an analysis in which ‘an hour’ starts out as a measure phrase, but ends up as a complement as a result of a transformation displacing the adposition to the left of the measure phrase.

Keywords

CS

předložka; předložková fráze; měrová fráze; atrakce pádu

EN

preposition; prepositional phrase; measure phrase; case attraction

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: 4
• Pages: 287-294
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavel Caha

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