K funkcím staročeského reflexiva sě

• Authors: Jiří Pergler

Title variants

EN

FUNCTIONS OF THE REFLEXIVE MORPHEME SĚ IN OLD CZECH

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the functions of the reflexive morpheme sě in Old Czech. Three types of constructions containing the reflexive form are described: (1) constructions with the accusative form of the reflexive pronoun, (2) constructions that express spontaneous events, and (3) agent-demotion constructions. We focus on the most important syntactic and semantic characteristics of these constructions and also treat the criteria of animacy of the syntactic subject and verbal aspect. The constructions we describe are considered to be prototypes, hence they have no clear boundaries and therefore ambiguous cases whose interpretation is not clear can be found in the data. We thus pay attention to several types of these cases. Although all three construction types are to be found also in Modern Czech, the Old Czech constructions considerably differ from the Modern Czech ones. We therefore point out the most important of these differences.

Keywords

CS

reflexivita; stará čeština; reflexivní zájmeno; spontánnost; deagentizace

EN

reflexivity; Old Czech; reflexive pronoun; spontaneity; agent demotion

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-41

Contributors

author

Jiří Pergler

• Ústav českého jazyka a teorie komunikace, FFUK | nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Rupublic