Finské modální sloveso viitsiä ve světle dat z paralelního korpusu

• Authors: Fárová Lenka

Title variants

EN

The Finnish Modal Verb viitsiä as Seen Through Data from a Parallel Corpus

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

The study deals with a contrastive corpus analysis of the Finnish modal verb viitsiä, and its translation counterparts in English and Czech. Theoretically based on the concept of translation as a “semantic mirror” (Dyvik, 2004), it uses multilingual corpus data to identify shifts in meaning (Johansson, 2007). The results show that the negative imperative form älä viitsi shifts from a dynamic modal verb to a discourse marker in the parallel data from the subcorpora of subtitles, which is confirmed by its Czech (no tak, prosím tě) and English (come on, please) counterparts. Syntactic isolation, expansion of the semantic and pragmatic context and the loss of valence complementation by the A-infinitive suggest that a process of pragmaticalization of älä viitsi has begun.

Keywords

CS

finština; dynamické modální sloveso; viitsiä; paralelní korpus; překladové protějšky pragmatikalizace

EN

Finnish; dynamic modal verb; viitsiä; parallel corpus; translation counterparts pragmaticalization

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 102-116

Contributors

author

Fárová Lenka