Though components of subordinate NN compounds may in principle display a wide variety of semantic relationships, data from Romance suggest that in languages where the NN pattern is still new and peripheral, the different subtypes of NN compounds do not necessarily emerge at the same rhythm. The… read more
The paper aims to show that light verb constructions (LVC) are formed not only with predicative nouns, but also frequently with result nouns and some concrete nouns. We propose a quantitative verification of the hypothesis that in Czech, result nouns are at least as frequent in LVC as event… read more
The contribution offers a critical review of existing works on nominal predication with light verbs in Czech. It proposes also three key elements in which the principles of nominal predication in Czech differs from Romance languages: absence of nominal determination, obligatory marking of… read more