The paper deals, from a diachronic perspective, with the double negative prefix nene-. This type of negation has received almost no attention in Czech linguistics so far. The study aims to collect a large number of examples. A total of 4,874 occurrences of this type of negation were excerpted from selected Czech dictionaries, written language corpora, the Lexical Database of Humanistic and Baroque Czech, and the Kramerius digital library (version 5). This type of negation occurred most frequently with verbs, with the most common word being nenedostávat(i) se (‘neg-neg-get’, i.e. ‘to not not get’). The first documented occurrence dates to the 14th century, and in the second half of the 20th century, this type of negation began to disappear from printed texts. The analysis shows that the meaning of words with the prefix nene- can usually be interpreted as a simple affirmative meaning, though sometimes with a shift toward an intensification of degree. This study contributes to the understanding of negation in Czech and provides suggestions for further analysis.
We propose through this paper to highlight the fact that pronouns represent an inherent and indispensable factor in the process of language economy. The present study therefore aims to analyze the pronoun from a discursive point of view, having as its main objective to trace the purposes that these lexical units have i...
The article focuses on the Czech translation of the essay collection Точка нуль [Absolute Zero] by contemporary Ukrainian writer Artem Chekh, paying particular attention to several problematic areas – the translation of military vocabulary, war-related realia, criminal slang, vulgarisms, phraseologisms, as well as hist...
Among the early Germanic languages, Gothic best preserves the two subtypes of
jō
-stem nouns, which differ only in the
nom.sg
, e.g.
bandi
‘bond’ vs.
wrakja
‘persecution’. It has been assumed since the 19th century that the distribution of the
bandi
and
wrakja
types is conditioned by weight of the nomin...
Ronald I. Kim· AMSTERDAMER BEITRÄGE ZUR ÄLT...· 0 citations
Abstract Lexical intonation in Standard German, i.e., pitch patterns related to German words, is a disputed subject. On the one hand, German is not a tone language; on the other hand, the tonal patterns of a subset of interjections, calls, and particles are salient. It is argued here that intonation patterns become ass...
Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna· Folia linguistica· 0 citations
This study analyses and discusses word-formation, inflectional, and syntactic differences in contemporary translations of world literature into Silesian. The analysis is based on a corpus of nine extensive literary texts translated by seven translators (G. Buchalik, J. Ciurlok, Z. Kadłubek, G. Kulik, M. Melon, M. Synia...
Henryk Jaroszewicz· Prace Językoznawcze· 0 citations
