PT Journal
AU Nejedly, P
TI ON GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF FOLK SONG LANGUAGE
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2021
BP 10
EP 35
VL 13
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bo.2021.020
DE Czech folk song; Antonin Francl; Vaclav Hanka sr.; Jan Jenik; knight of Bratrice; language; grammatical features
AB The article deals with the language of folk songs. It analyses three ones from the oldest song collections from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries (Antonin Francl, Vaclav Hanka sr., Jan Jenik, knight of Bratrice) untouched by romanticising interferences of editors. Folk song belongs to the non-artificial art and its language shows features of the functional style that uses means from various language structures and, above all, it is not identical with a dialect. It is especially evident at lowest language plans. The author characterises the repertory of grammatical means of folk song as an open system: this attribute corresponds with the main features of folklore: oral transmission, the identity of the production and reproduction, the anonymity of the author, the absence of the proto-text, variability, and unstable boundaries of texts.
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