<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper focuses on analyzing the relationship among word order positions of pronominal enclitics in the history of Czech. Specifically, we look at the Wackernagel’s position and the contact position and we try to decide whether these two positions compete, as usually taken for granted, or whether there is a certain kind of cooperation between them. The results show that the positions do not compete, at least not in the majority of cases. We used a corpus-based on selected books of the first edition of the Old Czech Bible and Kralice Bible for the analysis.</p></abstract>

The paper focuses on analyzing the relationship among word order positions of pronominal enclitics in the history of Czech. Specifically, we look at the Wackernagel’s position and the contact position and we try to decide whether these two positions compete, as usually taken for granted, or whether there is a certain kind of cooperation between them. The results show that the positions do not compete, at least not in the majority of cases. We used a corpus-based on selected books of the first edition of the Old Czech Bible and Kralice Bible for the analysis.

Wackernagel’s Position and Contact Position of Pronominal Enclitics in Older Czech. Competition or Cooperation?

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper focuses on analyzing the relationship among word order positions of pronominal enclitics in the history of Czech. Specifically, we look at the...

Wackernagel’s Position and Contact Position of Pronominal Enclitics in Older Czech. Competition or Cooperation?

Published Online: Dec 21, 2019

Page range: 267 - 275

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0057

Keywords
corpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora

© 2019 Radek Čech et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Wackernagel’s Position and Contact Position of Pronominal Enclitics in Older Czech. Competition or Cooperation?

Published Online: Dec 21, 2019

Page range: 267 - 275

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0057

Keywordscorpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora

© 2019 Radek Čech et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
corpus linguistics, corpus lexicography, dialect corpora