Czech Translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the Diachronic Point of View – Plus Ça Change…

The paper focuses on dynamics of changes of several linguistic and text properties in diachronic development of Czech. Specifically, we analyze the proportion of identical word-forms (types), the average type length, text length, the proportion of hapax legomena, the moving average type-token ratio, and entropy. For the analysis, seven translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14^th to the 21^st century were used. The study reveals some differences in dynamics of changes of particular properties.