Genitiv třech, čtyřech - kodifikace a úzus

• Authors: Pavla Chalupová , Josef Šimandl

Title variants

EN

The genitive forms třech, čtyřech - codification vs. usage

DE

Der Genitiv třech, čtyřech - Kodifizierung vs. Sprachgebrauch

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The genitive of the Czech cardinal numerals 3 and 4, in addition to its regular forms tří, čtyř, has also had the analogous forms třech, čtyřech for many decades. The latter forms appeared in Mluvnice češtiny 2 (Komárek et al. 1986) within the paradigms for these numerals; nevertheless, their value was (roughly) indicated as informal. Among the changes in the codification of Czech that took place in 1993/1994, they have been presented as unmarked. However, having explored the corpora SYN2000 and SYN2005, we cannot support this classification. The percentage of these forms in published written texts (třech 1.52% and čtyřech merely 0.59%) is far too small to have any importance. This article offers an analysis of occurrences in both corpora, situates the newly accepted forms in the system of Czech declension, and reflects on the mechanisms by which certain forms may become codified. These mechanisms may not always correspond with broadly shared notions and claims.

Keywords

CS

tvary číslovek tři a čtyři; korpusy současné češtiny; mechanismy kodifikace

EN

forms of numerals tři and čtyři; corpora of contemporary Czech; codification mechanisms

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: 2
• Pages: 117-129
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavla  Chalupová

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

author

Josef Šimandl

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