Monokolokabilita ve dvou typologicky odlišných jazycích: srovnání češtiny a italštiny

• Authors: Obstová Zora

Title variants

EN

Monocollocability in Two Typologically Different Languages: A Comparison of Czech and Italian

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The present study deals with the phenomenon of extremely restricted collocability (monocollocability) in Czech and Italian. On the basis of a list of words with the highest degree of monocollocability extracted from corpora with the aid of the so called Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), we try to analyse this little-explored phenomenon in both languages. Monocollocable words (MW, often referred to as cranberry words) and the fixed combinations in which they occur are investigated in terms of syntactic and collocation structures, frequency and diacronic development. In the light of corpus evidence, the phenomenon of extremely restricted collocability appears more complex than originally believed. The paper shows that MW in both languages form a very heterogeneous category and that many differences between Czech and Italian monocollocable structures can be explained by typological (e.g. the degree of nominal inflection) or historical factors.

Keywords

CS

monokolokabilní slova; jazyková typologie; čeština; italštiny; korpusy

EN

monocollocable words; cranberry words; language typology; Czech; Italian; corpora

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: 2017
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 225-244

Contributors

author

Obstová Zora

• Ústav románských studií, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy