DEVELOPMENT OF THE VERBAL PREFIX PO- IN THE OLD AND MIDDLE CZECH Cover Image

VÝVOJ SLOVESNÉ PŘEDPONY PO- V STARÉ A STŘEDNÍ ČEŠTINĚ
DEVELOPMENT OF THE VERBAL PREFIX PO- IN THE OLD AND MIDDLE CZECH

Author(s): Petr Nejedlý
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Summary/Abstract: The number of verbs with the prefix po- increases in historical Czech depending on the expanding lexis. Functions of the prefix are changing, e. g. the meaning of a small intensity of a process or its distribution is more frequent in Middle Czech; it is diminishing in the meaning ,the beginning of a process‘.

  • Issue Year: 5/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 277–284
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech
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