<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents empirical research of verbal prepositional “of“ structures, grammatical collocations of the verb and the preposition OF. The preposition OF belongs among the most frequent prepositions in the English language. The study is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. Material was taken from the electronic data bank Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank 2.0. The structures were examined and analyzed from morphological, syntactical and semantic points of view. The aim of the study is to create English-Czech verbal prepositional counterparts; to create verbal prepositional groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features; to identify the features that are the same for each verb group and generalize them; to identify trends and tendencies for verbs when they collocate with a certain preposition. The findings are presented in several charts and tables.</p></abstract>

The article presents empirical research of verbal prepositional “of“ structures, grammatical collocations of the verb and the preposition OF. The preposition OF belongs among the most frequent prepositions in the English language. The study is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. Material was taken from the electronic data bank Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank 2.0. The structures were examined and analyzed from morphological, syntactical and semantic points of view. The aim of the study is to create English-Czech verbal prepositional counterparts; to create verbal prepositional groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features; to identify the features that are the same for each verb group and generalize them; to identify trends and tendencies for verbs when they collocate with a certain preposition. The findings are presented in several charts and tables.

Analysis of Verbal Prepositional “of” Structures

University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The article presents empirical research of verbal prepositional “of“ structures, grammatical collocations of the verb and the preposition OF. The preposition...

Analysis of Verbal Prepositional “of” Structures

Data publikacji: 21 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 191 - 199

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0050

Słowa kluczowe
verbal prepositional structure, grammatical collocations, verbal semantic group, preposition “of”

© 2019 Marianna Hudcovičová, published by Sciendo

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

Analysis of Verbal Prepositional “of” Structures

Data publikacji: 21 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 191 - 199

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0050

Słowa kluczoweverbal prepositional structure, grammatical collocations, verbal semantic group, preposition “of”

© 2019 Marianna Hudcovičová, published by Sciendo

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

Słowa kluczowe
verbal prepositional structure, grammatical collocations, verbal semantic group, preposition “of”