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<p>Complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning have not been sufficiently studied so far in Czech. To establish a set of these expressions in their actual usage, the resources of the Czech National Corpus were used in this study. The research has shown that the SYN2020 corpus is a relevant tool for searching for two-word expressions with a LOCATIVE ADVERB – SIMPLE PREPOSITION structure that have the same function as a one-word locative preposition. The article describes a method for the extraction of these expressions from the corpus, as well as a method for the collection of their quantitative data using corpus tools. As a result of the research, a list of expressions that are presumably complex prepositions is provided.</p>
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Complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning have not been sufficiently studied so far in Czech. To establish a set of these expressions in their actual usage, the resources of the Czech National Corpus were used in this study. The research has shown that the SYN2020 corpus is a relevant tool for searching for two-word expressions with a LOCATIVE ADVERB – SIMPLE PREPOSITION structure that have the same function as a one-word locative preposition. The article describes a method for the extraction of these expressions from the corpus, as well as a method for the collection of their quantitative data using corpus tools. As a result of the research, a list of expressions that are presumably complex prepositions is provided.

On corpus-driven research of complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning in Czech

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning have not been sufficiently studied so far in Czech. To establish a set of these expressions in their actual...

On corpus-driven research of complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning in Czech

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 425 - 433

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0039

Keywords
complex preposition, locative adverb, spatial meaning, Czech language, Czech National Corpus

© 2021 Aksana Schillová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

On corpus-driven research of complex adverbial prepositions with spatial meaning in Czech

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 425 - 433

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0039

Keywordscomplex preposition, locative adverb, spatial meaning, Czech language, Czech National Corpus

© 2021 Aksana Schillová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
complex preposition, locative adverb, spatial meaning, Czech language, Czech National Corpus