Do we have more hatred or love in ourselves? (On one type of predication) Cover Image

Máme v sobě víc nenávisti, nebo lásky? (K jednomu typu přisuzování)
Do we have more hatred or love in ourselves? (On one type of predication)

Author(s): František Štícha
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: complex predicate; corpora; low-frequency grammatical structures

Summary/Abstract: It is only in the new era of large electronic corpora that some low-frequency grammatical structures can be tested for their communicative as well as their systemic status. This is also the case of the complex predicate of the type ‘mít (to have) + abstract noun’ (e.g. mít zkušenost, to have experience) in the sense of ‘být zkušený’(to be experienced) in contemporary Czech. The expression v sobě (in oneself), if attached to the predicative syntagma of the type ‘mít (to have) + abstract noun’ can make this complex predicate acceptable and grammatical.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 169-177
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech