Klad a zápor po slovesech bránění

• Authors: Jakub Kopecký

Title variants

EN

Affirmation and negation following verbs of preventing

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The papper deals with the meaning and distribution of the negative and positive content clauses following verbs of preventing (e.g. bránit 'prevent', zakázat 'forbid') in Czech. It has often been assumed that the negation in these clauses is neutralized, thus the negative and positive clauses have the same meaning and can both be used in standard Czech. The analyses of constructions containing the verbs bránit, zabránit and zakázat, based on the Czech National Corpus, reveal that negative clauses after these verbs are less frequent than positive ones, and that sentences with a non-neutralized negation in the content clause, expressing the opposite of the positive clause, are also used.

Keywords

CS

mluvnice; negace (lingvistika); klad; zápor; neutralizace; slovesa bránění; obsahová věta

EN

grammar; negatives (linguistics); affirmation; negation; neutralization; verbs of preventing; content clause

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 225-237
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jakub Kopecký

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic