Poznámky k syntaxi předložky před

• Authors: Caha Pavel

Title variants

EN

ON THE SYNTAX OF THE PREPOSITION 'PRED'

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, the author looks at the syntax of the preposition 'pred' (in front of) in its temporal uses, where it means 'before' or 'ago'. In particular, he analyzes PPs such as 'pred hodinou', lit. in front of an hour, meaning 'an hour ago', and he argues 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. The author proposes 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

EN

CASE ATTRACTION; MEASURE PHRASE; PREPOSITION; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE

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: 287-295
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Caha Pavel

• Pavel Caha, Universitet i Tromso, Teorifagbygget, H4P5, Tromso, 9037, Norway; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4662/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA067812