<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the contemporary Czech, in both spoken and especially in written form, possessive adjectives are replaced by possessive genitives, which are originally colloquial constructions only. In the last stage of this development, the postpositive genitive changes into prepositive: <italic>Klárčina maminka</italic>, <italic>maminka Klárky</italic>, <italic>Klárky maminka</italic> (‘Klárka’s mother’). The Czech language thus loses another means of inflection and gets closer to an agglutinative language type. This change (deflective tendency) is also supported by the loss of introflexion, i.e. the loss of morphophonological alternations, in our example <italic>k – č</italic>, in other cases <italic>r – ř</italic>, <italic>g – ž</italic>, <italic>ch – š</italic>, etc. (<italic>Klárčin – Klárky</italic> [‘Klárka’s’], <italic>sestra – sestřin</italic> [‘sister’s’], <italic>Olga – Olžin</italic> [‘Olga’s’] etc.).</p></abstract>

In the contemporary Czech, in both spoken and especially in written form, possessive adjectives are replaced by possessive genitives, which are originally colloquial constructions only. In the last stage of this development, the postpositive genitive changes into prepositive: Klárčina maminka, maminka Klárky, Klárky maminka (‘Klárka’s mother’). The Czech language thus loses another means of inflection and gets closer to an agglutinative language type. This change (deflective tendency) is also supported by the loss of introflexion, i.e. the loss of morphophonological alternations, in our example k – č, in other cases r – ř, g – ž, ch – š, etc. (Klárčin – Klárky [‘Klárka’s’], sestra – sestřin [‘sister’s’], Olga – Olžin [‘Olga’s’] etc.).

Posesivní Genitiv Redivivus

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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In the contemporary Czech, in both spoken and especially in written form, possessive adjectives are replaced by possessive genitives, which are originally...

Posesivní Genitiv Redivivus

Published Online: Mar 12, 2019

Page range: 497 - 501

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0026

Keywords
possessive adjective, possessive genitive, inflection, morphophonological alternation, deflective tendency

© 2018 Oldřich Uličný, published by Sciendo

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Posesivní Genitiv Redivivus

Published Online: Mar 12, 2019

Page range: 497 - 501

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0026

Keywordspossessive adjective, possessive genitive, inflection, morphophonological alternation, deflective tendency

© 2018 Oldřich Uličný, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
possessive adjective, possessive genitive, inflection, morphophonological alternation, deflective tendency