Ke vzniku fázových sufixů v češtině aneb Jak se domček změnil v domeček

• Authors: Zikova Marketa

Title variants

EN

ON THE EMERGENCE OF PHASE-TRIGGERING SUFFIXES IN CZECH OR HOW 'DOMCEK' BECAME 'DOMECEK'

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzes Czech double diminutives ending in '-ecek' created by the recursive application of the suffix '-ek' whose initial vowel alternates with zero. Diachronically speaking, these diminutives display both patterns of V-zero alternations found in Slavic languages: in OCz they follow the Havlik pattern, where alternants are in complementary distribution ('domocek'), while in MoCz they follow the Lower pattern, where strong alternants (i.e. vowels) are always preceded by strong alternants ('domecek'). The analysis of the Havlik-to-Lower change presented follows Rubach's (1984) classical analysis where the Lower pattern is derived from the cyclic application of the Lower rule which means that only the Lower pattern has internal phase structure. The author argues that in the Lower pattern, all floating vowels in a row (except the final one) vocalize, because each is immediately followed by an empty nucleus which stands at the phase boundary. Furthermore, phasehood is a lexical property, i.e. a property of a particular lexical item, namely the diminutve suffix '-ek'. From this perspective, the Havlik-to-Lower change consists in a change in the properties of the lexicon: only in MoCz is the suffix '-ek' lexically specified as a phase-trigger, in OCz it did not trigger any phase.

Keywords

EN

CZECH; DIACHRONIC CHANGE; DOUBLE DIMINUTIVES; GOVERNMENT PHONOLOGY; HAVLIK’S LAW; LOWER; PHASE-TRIGGERING AFFIXES; VOWEL-ZERO ALTERNATIONS

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: 2009
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 263-276
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zikova Marketa

• Marketa Zikova, Ustav ceskeho jazyka FF MU, Arna Novaka 1, Brno, 602 00, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4669/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA067810