Struktura prézentních participií v češtině
The structure of the Czech present participle

Summary/Abstract: The study describes the Czech present participle (PP), i.e. the type of (i) kouř-í-c,nes-ou-c (infinite verbs without inflectional agreement) and the type of (ii) kouř-í-c-í-, nes-ou-c-í-(infinite verbs with formal adjective feature and inflectional agreement). Both forms share a verbalportion of their internal structure and the distribution of (i) and (ii) and the inflection arecontrolled by the syntactic structure which they occur in: (i) the PP as an adverbial / co-predicate,(ii) the PP as a noun-modifier. The study also demonstrates that the same overt structureas verbal PPs is shared by the expressions with the categorical feature [adjective], [nominal],[adposition], and [adverb]. The proposed analysis is concentrated on PPs and from their internalfeature structure compositionally derives their anaphoric temporal meaning of simultaneityof the ongoing event and the main event.

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