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Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):8-15 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.032
The article outlines the structural period (usually spanning 1916 through 1957) in the history of the world linguistics while emphasizing its importance in the study of Slavic languages, especially Czech and Russian. Despite the fact that the structural epoch finished and was replaced by modern language theories its methods are still in use. Many of its terms and notions (functions, oppositions, neutralization of oppositions, etc.) are used by linguists of different schools and thus continue developing. The ideas of the Prague school and American descriptive linguistics are especially significant.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):16-36 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.033
When interpreting the Old Czech graphic records in manuscripts from 14th and 15th centuries, it is necessary to consider a massive development in all language levels of the Old Czech on one hand and on the other hand a vacillation and disunity of the ortography. Non-standard phenomena in Old Czech manuscripts refers to deviations from normal contemporary written records, which might be evaluated by the authors of historical grammars in a different way, secondly as phenomena caused by inappropriate scribal analogy, partly as a reflection of dialectal origin of the author or the scribe. However today, in the context of the predominant form of transcribed...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):38-48 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.034
The article compares the syntactic-semantic analysis of the lexical unit ještě (still, yet), made by Miroslav Komárek in 1958, with lexicographical treatment of the same lexeme in a Czech diachronic dictionary. Komárek works with two basic oppositions: his description starts on the position of the lexeme in syntactic structure of the sentence (according to the fact if the lexeme is construed with predicate or with some other valency complement), further, he distinguishes between meanings expressing contrastive-confrontational relationship (discrepancy in supposed temporal limits of the action) and meanings expressing continuity of the action (connecting,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):50-59 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.035
The paper deals with formal and functional aspects of loanwords, which either still have their native synonyms in Polish and Czech as recipient languages, or which are used in these languages in variant forms on different levels of adaptation. We assume the structure and form of a word is not irrelevant: the form can bear on at least a connotative meaning, it can direct the word's development and, in cases of lexical borrowings, it can influence the way these words become adapted in the recipient languages. In case of the synonyms, we focus on divergence of their functional potential and on their etymological, expressive and associative features, the...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):60-72 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.036
The paper deals with fundamental developmental trends of word order of Czech word enclitics (as distinct from sentence enclitics). The Czech word enclitics are: short forms of two-syllabic pronouns (mi, si, ti, ho, mu, tě, se) and forms of conditional and praeterital auxiliary verbs. The paper summarizes what has been up to now written about the development of enclitics in comprehensive works dealing with Czech historical grammar and proposes principles of future research of their development. The word order of Czech word enclitics can be seen as a competition of three positions: a) Postinitial position, which may be realized either as the 2W position...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2016, 8(3):74-79 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2016.037
If we understand the Prague functionalism within the meaning of the first paragraph of the Theses then teleology is one-word synonym for dynamic functional structure: means - intent/purpose/function. In this case there is no need to understand teleology as one of the basic concepts of the Prague School. However, if we understand language first of all as immanent structure "conscious of" intentional focusing on the target forms of its structural evolution then teleology is one of the basic concepts of the Prague School. In the first case we can talk about the relation: means - intent/purpose/function, in the second one it is entirely appropriate to...
