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Paraguayská krajanská čeština, jazyková atrofie a emergentní gramatika

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Zajícová L.
Naše řeč (Our Speech)
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2021
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vol. 104
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issue 5
338-358
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The article aims to present the language of the Czech immigrant community in Paraguay, especially with regard to the issue of language attrition. It first presents the origin, development and current state of the Czech community in Paraguay, then the circumstances of research into their language, and then the basic characteristics of the language of the community and the causes of its variation. The variation is illustrated by the example of two investigated phenomena: innovations in the reflexive possessive pronoun and in nominal morphology. The article attempts to point out the irreplaceable role of communication for the emergence of regularity in changes, and the fact that the processes in attriting languages tend to speak in favor of the concept of emergent grammar. Rather than a conclusion, however, this is a suggestion of a possible perspective in the research on attriting languages, as the limited scope of the article does not allow the necessary comparison to be made with data from other situations of language attrition.
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Taking stock and looking forward: documenting a diasporic variety of Czech in Texas

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Cope L.
Naše řeč (Our Speech)
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2021
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vol. 104
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issue 5
284-310
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Texas Czech, a highly endangered diasporic variety of the Czech language, has roots in the dialects of Moravian and Bohemian immigrants from Austria and later Austria-Hungary who began arriving in Texas in the 1850s. “Taking stock”, the paper situates this variety’s development in the context of literature on language contact and borrowing, heritage languages, and community language endangerment and loss in order to examine its main contact features. “Looking forward”, the article (1) demonstrates the need for a corpus-based approach to this and other diasporic varieties of Czech to help us better understand the intersection of incomplete acquisition and attrition, typological characteristics of languages in contact, and internally vs. externally induced language change under different sociolinguistic constraints, and (2) references the Texas Czech Legacy Project, whose main objective is to build a searchable corpus of Texas Czech speech to serve the community and aid scholarly research on Czech varieties in the diaspora.
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