Repetition and omission of the reflexive morpheme se in coordination of reflex-ive verbs Cover Image

Opakování a elipsa reflexivního morfému se v koordinovaném spojení zvratných sloves
Repetition and omission of the reflexive morpheme se in coordination of reflex-ive verbs

Author(s): František Štícha
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: ellipsis repetition; reflexive verbs; reflexive morpheme; coordination

Summary/Abstract: It is only the aid of large corpora (several billions of words) that enables us to discover some intuitively and spontaneously followed rules of grammar. Different kinds of ellip-sis and non-ellipsis (repetition of a word or a nominal phrase, which – under some con-ditions – can be omitted) can also be governed by such rules. The corpus findings of sen-tence structures as (1) Zastavila se a podívala se na hodinky or (2) Zastavila se a podívala na hodinky (She stopped and looked at her watch) have clearly shown that el-lipsis as well as repetition is a (strict) rule under specific semantic and syntactic conditions.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 61-83
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Czech
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