AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
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AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2014 No 3 (2014), 105–117
Prézentní formy slovesa býti v češtině barokní doby
[The Present Forms of the Verb býti to be in Baroque Czech]
Pavel Kosek
published online: 17. 03. 2015
abstract
The aim of the article is to analyze present forms of the verb byti “to be” in Baroque Czech. The author analyzed data given in old grammars of Czech, diachronic corpora and a personal corpus of Baroque Czech texts. The author found that: 1) the analyzed texts contain just one dialectal form (2. ps. sg. seš “you are”), 2) the distribution of the short form of the 2. Ps. Sg. s “you are” is not restricted to the auxiliary function, 3) the main form of 3. Ps. Sg. is jest “he/she/it is”, while the form je is rare, 4) the distribution of the initial j is unstable (jsem × sem “I am”, jsi × si “you are” …): only the texts that belong to the high style (such as translations of biblical texts) distinguish between forms including js- in the lexical function and forms including s- in the auxiliary function.
keywords: development of Czech Language; Czech language of the Baroque era; historical linguistics; verb býti “to be” vývoj češtiny; čeština barokní doby; historická lingvistika; sloveso býti
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