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SUBJECT-OPERATOR INVERSION AFTER SENTENCE-INITIAL ONLY SEEN THROUGH ITS CZECH EQUIVALENTS
SUBJECT-OPERATOR INVERSION AFTER SENTENCE-INITIAL ONLY SEEN THROUGH ITS CZECH EQUIVALENTS

Author(s): Michaela Martinková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: parallel translation corpus InterCorp; contrastive analysis; English; Czech; sentence-initial only; subject-operator inversion

Summary/Abstract: Michaela Martinková: SUBJECT-OPERATOR INVERSION AFTER SENTENCE-INITIAL ONLY SEEN THROUGH ITS CZECH EQUIVALENTS The paper presents the results of a systematic analysis of English sentences with subjectoperator inversion after sentence-initial only through their Czech equivalents in a parallel translation corpus of English and Czech (InterCorp). Though the number of relevant tokens found in a parallel translation corpus is inevitably low and the Czech equivalents can hardly account for all tokens of the absence of S-O inversion after sentence-initial only focusing fronted adverbials, they nonetheless bring interesting evidence about the function of only in these sentences and about the scope of only as a restrictive focusing modifier. The contrastive analysis also sheds new light on two Czech temporal particles teprve [not until] and ještě [still] and opens areas for future research on monolingual corpora of both English and Czech.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 79-97
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English
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