Hansen, Bjoern and Nekula, Marek and Banasova, Monika (2011) The new construction "Karla Gotta nemusim" in Czech and Slovak: a case of lexicalization, pragmaticalization or incipient degrammaticalization? SLOVO A SLOVESNOST, 72 (4). pp. 243-267. ISSN 0037-7031,
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This article deals with the construction "Karla_Gotta_nemusim" [I don't have to have Karel Gott] which has recently developed in the Czech and Slovak youth language variety and began spreading to other registers. The contribution is based on a questionnaire carried out among students in Prague, Brno and Trnava. The linguistic analysis is inspired by Construction Grammar. In this specific constructional context involving negation, the original modal verbs of necessity are used as main verbs with the new meaning 'to dislike', which is accompanied by a change in the complementation pattern: instead of an infinitive phrase, the modals govern a nominal phrase in the accusative. The second part of the article is dedicated to the question of whether the development of the modals muset and musiet [must, have to] into the construction "Karla_Gotta_nemusim" presents a case of a) lexicalization, b) pragmaticalization, or c) degrammaticalization. This is an instance of a change from a modal auxiliary verb to a lexical one, which could be treated as one of the very rare instances of degrammaticalization.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; construction grammar; lexicalization; pragmaticalization; degrammaticalization; modal verb; modality |
| Subjects: | 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
| Divisions: | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Slavistik > Lehrstuhl für slawistische slavische Philologie | Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Björn Hansen) Languages and Literatures > Institut für Slavistik > Professur für Bohemistik und Westslavik (Prof. Dr. Marek Nekula) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2020 05:47 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2020 05:47 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/21684 |
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