K otázce tzv. akuzativního se v češtině: pohled (nejen) diachronní

• Authors: Jiří Pergler

Title variants

EN

On the so-called accusative se in Czech: A (not only) diachronic perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the Czech reflexive form se and its categorization from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. It is argued that in Old Czech, the reflexive was clearly a pronoun because it could be used in a number of contexts that are indicative of its having a syntactic function, e.g. in the context of coordination. Since then, however, the reflexive se has been gradually losing its pronominal nature, being replaced in pronominal contexts by the (originally genitive) form sebe. This process has not been completed yet, hence in contemporary Czech, the reflexive has both pronominal features and features of a morpheme/particle. It thus cannot be discretely categorized; such a categorization would be an inadequate oversimplification because it would necessarily ignore some of the features of the reflexive. Therefore, instead of asking whether the form se is a pronoun or a morpheme/particle in contemporary Czech, I try to answer the question of what pronominal and what non-pronominal features it has.

Keywords

CS

reflexivum; zájmeno; morfém; částice; kategorizace; diachronie; gramatikalizace; stará čeština

EN

reflexive form; pronoun; morpheme; particle; categorization; diachrony; grammaticalization; Old Czech

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: 2016
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 102-122
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jiří Pergler

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic