Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Translated from the French, German and Czech sources
Josef Vachek
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 50] 2003. ix, 213 pp.
Aleš Klégr
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aleš Klégr plays a role.
Title
Subjects Functional linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular: Blocking factors and free variation Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 74–98 | Chapter
Unlike Slavic languages, such as Polish and Czech, English is assumed to prefer distributive plural agreement between the plural subject and the noun in the predicate part of the sentence. The aim of this paper is to verify this claim and (since this preference is apparently not without… read more
2004 Modality in Czech and English: Possibility particles and the conditional mood in a parallel corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 83–95 | Article
The paper examines two kinds of modality exponents and their interlingual relationships, using an aligned parallel minicorpus of two contemporary Czech originals (drama and novel) and their English translations. It focuses on four most frequent Czech adverbial particles of… read more