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.
Markéta Malá
List of John Benjamins publications for which Markéta Malá plays a role.
Title
Subjects Functional linguistics
Articles
2021 The expression of time in English and Czech children’s literature: A contrastive phraseological perspective Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 283–304 | Chapter
This chapter explores the expression of the concept of time in children’s narrative fiction cross-linguistically, comparing Czech and English. Specifically, it analyses multi-word units and patterns which the respective languages employ when referring to time. The new Engrammer software was… read more
2019 English presentative semantic patterns as seen through a parallel translation corpus Languages in Contrast 19:2, pp. 232–255 | Article
The present paper studies the English presentative semantic pattern whose function is to introduce a new phenomenon into the discourse, relating it to an already established location. A contrastive (English-Czech) cross-linguistic corpus-assisted approach is applied to explore syntactically… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Non-prepositional English correspondences of Czech prepositional phrases: From function words to functional sentence perspective Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Chapter
The study explores overt non-prepositional English translation correspondences of the four most common Czech prepositions, v/ve, na, s/se, and z/ze (‘in, on, with, from’). Some of the divergent counterparts are conditioned lexically or peculiar to one preposition. However, some of the most frequent… read more
2013 Translation counterparts as markers of meaning: The case of copular verbs in a parallel English–Czech corpus Text-based contrastive linguistics, Altenberg, Bengt and Karin Aijmer (eds.), pp. 170–192 | Article
The paper explores the applicability of a method of contrastive corpus-supported research which relies on the use of salient translation counterparts as markers of a particular meaning. The markers are identified among the Czech counterparts of the individual semantic sub-classes of English copular… read more