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<p>The study, dedicated to the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Vincent Blanár, offers a comparative Czech-Slovak view of the lexeme <italic>brother</italic> (Czech <italic>bratr –</italic> Slovak <italic>brat</italic>) in its paradigmatic relations. The analysis is based on a specific textual basis, the novel <italic>Bratrstvo</italic> (<italic>Brotherhood</italic>) by the Czech writer Alois Jirásek. The starting point of the comparison is the Czech original and two Slovak translations of this literary text, which shows a remarkably wide range of semantic concretizations of the polysemic word <italic>brother</italic>. In the Czech-Slovak comparison, various morphosyntactic, lexical-semantic, derivational and collocational differences appear. In a comparative view, the sphere of addressing is particularly interesting.</p>
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The study, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Blanár, offers a comparative Czech-Slovak view of the lexeme brother (Czech bratr – Slovak brat) in its paradigmatic relations. The analysis is based on a specific textual basis, the novel Bratrstvo (Brotherhood) by the Czech writer Alois Jirásek. The starting point of the comparison is the Czech original and two Slovak translations of this literary text, which shows a remarkably wide range of semantic concretizations of the polysemic word brother. In the Czech-Slovak comparison, various morphosyntactic, lexical-semantic, derivational and collocational differences appear. In a comparative view, the sphere of addressing is particularly interesting.

I originally wanted to write the title Brethren, but I wrote Brotherhood... Jirásek brotherhood impressions

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The study, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Blanár, offers a comparative Czech-Slovak view of the lexeme brother (Czech bratr –...

I originally wanted to write the title Brethren, but I wrote Brotherhood... Jirásek brotherhood impressions

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 272 - 297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0028

Keywords
Vincent Blanár, Alois Jirásek, Czech language, Slovak language, Czech-Slovak comparison, interlingual homonymy, collective noun, diminutive noun, loan word, vocative forms, addressing

© 2021 Mira Nábělková, published by Sciendo

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

I originally wanted to write the title Brethren, but I wrote Brotherhood... Jirásek brotherhood impressions

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 272 - 297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0028

KeywordsVincent Blanár, Alois Jirásek, Czech language, Slovak language, Czech-Slovak comparison, interlingual homonymy, collective noun, diminutive noun, loan word, vocative forms, addressing

© 2021 Mira Nábělková, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
Vincent Blanár, Alois Jirásek, Czech language, Slovak language, Czech-Slovak comparison, interlingual homonymy, collective noun, diminutive noun, loan word, vocative forms, addressing