PT Journal
AU David, J
TI OLD-CZECH, OLD-SLAVIC, AND OLD-CHURCH-SLAVIC - ON THE SEMANTIC FIELDS OF THREE ADJECTIVES
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 34
EP 51
VL 12
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bo.2020.018
DE collocation analysis; corpus; old-Czech; old-Slavic; old-Church-Slavic; personal names
AB The goal of the study is to examine the semantics of adjectives starocesky [old-Czech], staroslovansky [old-Slavic], and staroslovensky [old-Church-Slavic]. The analysis is based on their collocations in the Czech National Corpus data, specifically in the synchronic written corpus SYN, version 8; there, their appearances are compared in the fiction, academic, and opinion journalism subcorpora. The adjectives are used in two basic meanings - they refer to the linguistic-literary facts and to the cultural-historical ones. The adjectives staroslovansky and staroslovensky, regarding the world of Old Slavs and the old-Church-Slavic language, are the most semantically transparent. In case of the adjective starocesky, a reference to the events, cuisine, and food is the striking feature, mostly in opinion-journalism texts; it reflects the usage of the adjective in marketing texts with a semantic shift to 'having a good quality, traditional'.
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