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Subkategorizace adverbiálních významů (hranice mezi obsahem a významem)
Subcategorization of adverbial meanings (boundary between cognitive content and linguistic meaning)

Author(s): Marie Mikulová, Jarmila Panevová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: cognitive content; linguistic meaning; homonymy; vagueness; synonymy; form-function relation; adverbial

Summary/Abstract: The necessity to distinguish between cognitive content and linguistic meaning arose in European structural linguistics (Saussure 1916) and was further elaborated in the Prague Linguistic Circle (Mathesius 1942; Dokulil – Daneš 1958; Daneš 1974). In the contribution, we describe the practical aspects of applying the principle of distinguishing meaning and content to the task of delimitation of adverbial meanings, expressed by prepositional groups. We present methodology and main principles we work with in completing the set of meanings of adverbials. We describe how we use the principle of substitutability of synonyms. All the examples in the contribution relate to spatial adverbials but the principles apply to adverbials in general. Our theoretical framework is Functional Generative Description (Sgall et al. 1986).

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 33-46
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Czech