Názvy českých železničních stanic a zastávek: jejich struktura a délka

• Authors: Martin Beneš

Title variants

EN

Names of Czech railway stations and stops: their structure and length

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the names of current Czech railway stations and stops. From the List of Stations and Stops, which is part of the currently valid Czech Timetable 2024, all stations and stops located on the territory of the Czech Republic were excerpted. In these names, six parts were identified: the base of the municipality name (Veselí), specifying prepositional phrase (nad Moravou ‘upon the (river) Morava’), a hyphen or a space, separating the base and the prepositional phrase from the so-called distinctive part (-Milokošť), which consists of a primary distinction that can be complemented by the specifying prepositional phrase (Pardubice-Rosice nad Labem) and possibly also by a secondary distinction (Praha-Holešovice zastávka). Not all names necessarily consist of all parts; a name can consist just of the base or of the base and a specifying prepositional phrase. The paper deals with the length of these names measured by the number of characters (including spaces) in all these parts, in base + specifying prepositional phrase, distinctive part and in the complete names. Individual sections on the whole names and on each of their parts consequently present the average number of characters and the lowest and highest number of characters. Besides purely descriptive purposes, the data also have a practical, applied purpose. They can serve as a basis for typographical standardization of the currently inconsistent presentation of names on signs and in information systems at stations and stops.

Keywords

CS

délka slova; mezera; názvy železničních stanic a zastávek; onomastika; počet znaků; spojovník; vlastní jména obcí

EN

hyphen; names of railway stations and stops; number of characters; onomastics; proper names of municipalities; space; word length

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 133-152
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Martin Beneš

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic