Několik poznámek ke kontradiktorické antonymii u sloves
Several remarks on the contradictory oppositions with verbs

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the question whether contradictory oppositions occurnot only between state verbs (mít ‘have’ – chybět ‘lack’), process verbs (spát ‘sleep’ – bdít ‘beawake’, mluvit ‘speak’ – mlčet ‘be silent’) and event verbs (opustit ‘leave’ – zůstat ‘stay, remain’,vzít ‘take’ – nechat ‘leave’) but also in such cases where one verb denotes a state/processand the other verb denotes an event which terminates the respective state/process. Therecould potentially be many such pairs. The paper sheds light on three pairs of verbs of thiskind: zazlívat ‘blame’ – odpustit ‘forgive’, pamatovat si/se ‘remember’ – zapomenout ‘forget’,žít ‘live’ – zemřít ‘die’. Of them only the pair žít ‘live’ – zemřít ‘die’ can be considered contradictoryin the systemic sense. However, the categorial discrepancy between both verbs isalleviated by the fact that the respective state is conceptualized as an event. In the case of theother two pairs of verbs, the state/process verbs are conceived of as event verbs only inparticular contexts, therefore there is no contradiction in the systemic sense. The authorconsiders it probable that in Czech there are not many verbal pairs similar to the pair žít‘live’ – zemřít ‘die’.

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