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On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech

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ČECH Radek KOSEK Pavel NAVRÁTILOVÁ Olga MAČUTEK Ján

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Language and Text. Data, models, information and applications
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.356.01cec
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.356.01cec
Keywords enclitics; word order; initial phrase; length; Old Czech
Description This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between the length of the initial phrase and the positions of pronominal enclitics in a clause. The hypothesis predicting the negative correlation between the length of the phrase and the proportion of enclitics in the post-initial position was set up and tested. For testing the hypothesis, selected books – Genesis (Gn), Isaiah (Is), Job (Jb), Sirach (Sir), Gospel of St. Matthew (Mt), Gospel of St. Luke (Lk), Acts (Act), and Revelation (Rev) – from the first edition of the Old Czech Bible translation were used. The hypothesis was not rejected; however, some differences among particular pronouns were revealed.
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