<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article deals with the linguistic competition of the possessive genitive and possessive adjectives in contemporary spoken Czech language. It focuses on the differences between the constructions of the type <italic>Barbořin byt</italic> (<italic>Barbora’s flat</italic>), <italic>byt</italic> (<italic>naší</italic>) <italic>Barbory</italic> (<italic>the flat of</italic> (<italic>our</italic>) <italic>Barbora</italic>) and (<italic>naší</italic>) <italic>Barbory byt</italic> ((<italic>our</italic>) <italic>Barbora’s flat</italic>). The paper’s aimis to find out which of the possessive structures are preferred by speakers (and alternatively for what reason) or whether the frequency of their usage is equal. At first, both ways of expressing the possession with all their restrictions are described from the theoretical point of view. Moreover, the semantic relation of possessivity is specified. The next section suggests the influences which may govern the preference of the speaker. Within empirical research, data from the corpus of spoken Czech (ORALv1) are examined and it is seeked for explanation of factors that influence the choice of the structure. This also demonstrates whether one of the possessive structures has a dominant position or whether they occur in similar numbers.</p></abstract>

This article deals with the linguistic competition of the possessive genitive and possessive adjectives in contemporary spoken Czech language. It focuses on the differences between the constructions of the type Barbořin byt (Barbora’s flat), byt (naší) Barbory (the flat of (our) Barbora) and (naší) Barbory byt ((our) Barbora’s flat). The paper’s aimis to find out which of the possessive structures are preferred by speakers (and alternatively for what reason) or whether the frequency of their usage is equal. At first, both ways of expressing the possession with all their restrictions are described from the theoretical point of view. Moreover, the semantic relation of possessivity is specified. The next section suggests the influences which may govern the preference of the speaker. Within empirical research, data from the corpus of spoken Czech (ORALv1) are examined and it is seeked for explanation of factors that influence the choice of the structure. This also demonstrates whether one of the possessive structures has a dominant position or whether they occur in similar numbers.

KE KONKURENCI GENITIVU POSESIVNÍHO A INDIVIDUÁLNĚ POSESIVNÍCH ADJEKTIV V SOUČASNÉ MLUVENÉ ČEŠTINĚ

Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze

Česká republika Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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This article deals with the linguistic competition of the possessive genitive and possessive adjectives in contemporary spoken Czech language. It focuses on...

KE KONKURENCI GENITIVU POSESIVNÍHO A INDIVIDUÁLNĚ POSESIVNÍCH ADJEKTIV V SOUČASNÉ MLUVENÉ ČEŠTINĚ

Published Online: Oct 11, 2020

Page range: 69 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2020-0012

Keywords
possessive genitive, possessive adjective, possessive structures, corpus analysis, spoken Czech

© 2020 Martin Janečka, published by Sciendo

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

KE KONKURENCI GENITIVU POSESIVNÍHO A INDIVIDUÁLNĚ POSESIVNÍCH ADJEKTIV V SOUČASNÉ MLUVENÉ ČEŠTINĚ

Published Online: Oct 11, 2020

Page range: 69 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2020-0012

Keywordspossessive genitive, possessive adjective, possessive structures, corpus analysis, spoken Czech

© 2020 Martin Janečka, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
possessive genitive, possessive adjective, possessive structures, corpus analysis, spoken Czech