Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund: Romance Languages

Description: Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund by Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Olga Nadvornikova, Pavel Stichauer This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and Czech. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Czech National Corpus massive language database, the authors analyze a range of linguistic categories to discover the differences and similarities between Czech and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as well as the high number of languages examined, this book presents general and individual typological features of the four Romance languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted in the field of comparative linguistics. Author Biography Petr Cermak is associate professor of Spanish at Charles University, Prague. Dana Kratochvilova is assistant professor of Spanish at Charles University, Prague. Olga Nadvornikova is assistant professor of French at Charles University, Prague. Pavel Stichauer is associate professor of Italian at Charles University, Prague. Table of Contents 1. Expressions of potential participation, iterativity, causation,ingressivity and adverbial subordination in the light of parallel corporaPetr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Olga Nadvornikova, Pavel Štichauer1.1 Investigation project and its history1.2 Objectives and scope of the present monograph1.3 Organisation of the monograph1.4 Terminological remarks1.4.1 Romance languages under scrutiny and use of the term Romance1.4.2 Use of the terms counterpart and respondent2. Corpus design & corpus-based contrastive research methodologyOlga Nadvornikova2.0 Introduction2.1 Corpus-based contrastive research methodology2.2 Corpora used in this study3. Morphologically complex words in romance and their Czech respondentsPavel Štichauer, Jan Hricsina, Jiri Jancik, Jaroslava Jindrova, Zuzana Krinkova, Daniel Petrik3.0 Introduction3.1 Word-formation: complex vs simple words3.2 Romance and Czech: common and different word-formation patterns3.3 The typology of Czech respondents3.3.1 Typology of Czech respondents of the adjectives with the suffix -bile/-ble/-vel3.3.2 Typology of Czech respondents for verbs with the prefix re-/ri-3.4 The modal suffix -ble/-bile/-vel3.4.1 Data elaboration and analysis3.4.2 Quantitative distribution of the types3.4.3 Discussion of various examples3.5 The iterative prefix re-/ri-3.5.1 Data elaboration and analysis3.5.2 Quantitative distribution of the types3.5.3 Discussion of various examples3.6 Concluding remarks4. Causative constructions in romance and their Czech respondentsPetr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Petra Laufkova, Pavel Štichauer4.0 Introduction4.1 Definition of causativity and its forms of expression4.2 Causativity in Romance languages4.2.1 Analytic type4.2.2 Synthetic type4.2.3 Characteristics of the Romance construction hacer/fare/faire/fazer + infinitive4.3 Causativity in Czech4.3.1 Word-formatting causativity4.3.1.1 Verbs derived from another verb4.3.1.2 Verbs derived from an adjective4.3.1.3 No change in the lexical basis, expressing causativity through a prefix roz-4.3.2 Semantic causativity4.3.2.1 Suppletive types4.3.2.2 Causative interpretation resulting from syntax4.3.3 Analytic causativity4.3.3.1 Causative verbs followed by a subordinate clause4.3.3.2 Causative verbs followed by a nominal syntagma4.3.3.3 (Semi-)causative verbs followed by an infinitive4.4 Our typology of Czech respondents4.5 Methodology4.6 Causative constructions in Romance – formal comparison4.7 Analysis of Czech respondents4.7.1 Primary Czech respondents4.7.1.1 Type 3 – shodit type (hacer caer / far cadere / faire tomber / fazer cair)4.7.1.2 Type 8 – what makes you think that > proc myslite? (why do you think that?)4.7.1.3 Type 4 – dat vypit type4.7.2 Secondary Czech respondents4.7.2.1 Type 5 – dohnat k slzam type4.7.2.2 Type 9 – other translation4.7.2.3 Type 7 – zpusobit, e tal type4.7.2.4 Type 1 – rozplakat type4.7.2.5 Type 2 – posadit type and type 6 – zpusobit tani type4.7.2.6 Type 10 – no translation4.8 Conclusions Details ISBN8024645548 Short Title Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 8024645548 ISBN-13 9788024645544 Format Paperback Pages 163 Imprint Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Place of Publication Ovocny Country of Publication Czechia Publication Date 2021-03-02 UK Release Date 2021-03-02 Author Pavel Stichauer Publisher Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Subtitle Romance Languages Versus Czech (a Parallel Corpus-Based Study) Edited by Pavel Stichauer DEWEY 440 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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