Distributiva typu pobít, pomřít, povyhazovat v současné češtině
Distributive verbs such as pobít “to kill all”, pomřít “to die completely” (about a group of living beings), povyhazovat “throw everything away” in contemporary Czech

Summary/Abstract: Distributive verbs are a semantically significant but infrequent category in contemporary Czech. The centre of this category are several dozens of verbs with the prefix po- and with the obligatory plural object (or subject). Within the SYNv8 corpus, the author found fifty-eight of these verbs occuring in journalistic and prosaic texts. The number of tokens related to these fifty-eight lemmas has been growing slightly in recent decades (1990–2014), as well as the number of verbs with two or more prefixes among these tokens. Compared to verbs as a whole, distributive verbs are characterized by certain specifics in grammatical behavior – they more often appear in the 3rd person, in plural and in passive voice.

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