From standard to norm through the lens of corpora and native speakers
Od standaryzacji do normy

Summary/Abstract: In order to avoid future confusion of authors with, eventually, equal name some additional information on the author is essential: please give us at least an email address of the author! Additionally year and place of birth would be very helpful! to users and (2) its frequency of use. We were able to confirm this hypothesis:the proportional frequency of endings (which may include verb class as a factor) plays the largest role of all factors that were identified and examined. The communicative situation in which a form is set did play a role, but it was not as predictive as corpus frequency – possibly in part because the situation is apparentlynot easily deduced from sentence-long contexts. A more extensive context might be needed to reliably influence the choice of form or ratings.This fact may help explain the current state of variation in Czech. In both of the functional slots that we have looked at in this article the users have two formsof varying acceptability and usefulness at their disposal. Prescriptive works have traditionally relied on prescribing usage by its wider communicative context. Inthe last half-century, evolving norms and a proliferation of mixed communicative situations have complicated this picture, thus blurring those boundaries (seeBermel 2010, 2014), and the difficulties that users have in making these distinctions have thus become more evident, as can be observed in our survey.

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