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K funkcím staročeského reflexiva sě

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Pergler J.

Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

2014

vol. 96

issue 1

27-41

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.

K užívání reflexivní deagentní konstrukce v češtině 15.–17. století

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Pergler J.

Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics

2018

vol. 9

issue Special Issue 2018

85-105

This paper deals with the Czech reflexive agent-demoting construction (i.e. the construction in which the verb form contains the reflexive marker se and the agent is demoted from the subject position), more specifically, with the usage of this construction in 15th–17th century, a period when a notable increase of its frequency is documented in the literature. The aim is to identify the typical contexts (situation types) in which the construction was used and to describe their prototypical formal, semantic and pragmatic features with regard to the verb, its participants and the pattern as a whole. The situation types are divided into two groups: (1) the types typically expressing generalizations over eventualities with universal/generic agents, and (2) the types tending to express non-generalized eventualities with individual agents. The types in the first group include habituality, general truths, general (im)possibility, instructions, general modality of necessity and hypothetical circumstances; the second group contains metatexts, pragmatic indirectness, performatives, prominence of the patient and simple defocusing of the agent. The presented description can be used for comparing the functions of this construction with the situation in other diachronic periods, as well as with the distribution of other agent-demoting constructions which either coexisted or still coexist with the reflexive construction in Czech.

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K funkcím staročeského reflexiva sě

K užívání reflexivní deagentní konstrukce v češtině 15.–17. století