RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 David, Jaroslav
T1 OLD-CZECH, OLD-SLAVIC, AND OLD-CHURCH-SLAVIC - ON THE SEMANTIC FIELDS OF THREE ADJECTIVES
JF Bohemica Olomucensia
YR 2020
VO 12
IS 2
SP 34
OP 51
DO 10.5507/bo.2020.018
UL https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-202002-0003.php
AB The goal of the study is to examine the semantics of adjectives staročeský [old-Czech], staroslovanský [old-Slavic], and staroslověnský [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 staroslovanský and staroslověnský, regarding the world of Old Slavs and the old-Church-Slavic language, are the most semantically transparent. In case of the adjective staročeský, 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'.