Mediální konstrukce v češtině a v italštině

• Authors: Perissutti Anna Maria

Title variants

EN

Middle Constructions in Czech and Italian

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

The paper is devoted to a family of constructions in Czech and Italian that are reminiscent of the verbal category of Indo-European Middle, which, besides the active voice, was the second voice and expressed agency/state as subjective. As far as Czech is concerned, we consider two constructions, one with intransitive verbs, the morpheme “se”, the adverb of evaluation and the Experiencer expressed in the dative, and one with transitive verbs, the so-called mediopassive, with the Patient in subject position as in the passive sentences. As far as Italian is concerned, we also analyze two constructions, one with intransitive verbs and the combined clitics “se+ne” and one with transitive verbs and the adverb of evaluation “facilmente”. Based on data derived from the Czech Ten Ten 2017 corpus, as well as the Italian web 2020 corpus from the Sketch Engine platform, we analyze the actional nature of the verbs occurring in the sentences, while contrasting the functions of the constructions in the two languages in the framework of construction grammar (Goldberg, 1995).

Keywords

CS

medium; mediopasivní; konstrukční gramatika; čeština; italština

EN

middle; mediopassive; construction grammar; Czech; Italian

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 105
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-22

Contributors

author

Perissutti Anna Maria

• Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Comunicazione Formazione e Società — DILL, Università di Udine