Mluvená čeština v Praze a Brně: sonda do mluvených korpusů

• Authors: Kodytek V.

Title variants

EN

SPOKEN CZECH IN PRAGUE AND BRNO: A PROBE INTO SPOKEN CORPORA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article examines selected variations in spoken Czech in two sub-corpora of the Czech National Corpus: the Prague Spoken Corpus (PSC) and the Brno Spoken Corpus (BSC). These include the prothetic 'v-' at the beginning of words starting with 'o-', variations in case endings of hard stem adjectives and the third person indicative plural endings in major verb classes, as well as the usage of the personal pronoun 'já' and/or the auxiliary verb 'jsem' in the past tense forms. Our interpretation of changes in apparent time is checked against data from the relevant literature. The most significant change is the decline of the prothetic 'v-' in the BSC, reported for Brno earlier by Krcmová (1981, 1997). We show that it is female speakers who are leading this change. The PSC informal speech is stable, while a significant shift toward colloquial variants has been identified in formal discourse. In the past tense, the form without the auxiliary 'jsem' is rare except for 'já myslel(a)' in the PSC.

Keywords

EN

CZECH NATIONAL CORPUS; LINGUISTIC VARIABILITY; SPOKEN 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: 2007
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-37
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kodytek V.

• V. Kodytek, Beethovenova 18, 400 01 Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03076313