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Slovesa od substantiv s časovým významem a jejich prefixální deriváty v současné češtině
| Title in English | Verbs formed from nouns with temporal meaning and their prefix derivatives in contemporary Czech |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The paper focuses on verbs derived from nouns with temporal meaning (time, date), time unit names (hour, minute, day, night), time periods (spring, summer, winter, weekend, holidays), sections (phase, pause, break) and holidays (Christmas, St. Nicholas Day). While Šmilauer defines them as a specific group in his Novočeské tvoření slov (1971, p. 154), most other publications on word formation and grammar classify them as verbs formed from nouns expressing event circumstances, including temporal, and are presumably understood as marginal expressions. Based on data from the Czech National Corpus, we aim to demonstrate that although the number of verbs derived from nouns with temporal meaning is lower than, for example, verbs formed from the names of persons or from the names of particular inanimate objects, the group includes not only occasional expessions found scarcely (časit se, minutovat) or rarely (dnít se, etapovat). Some verbs expressing time-related meanings are very frequent (nocovat, zimovat). These verbs are formed by conversion using infinitive stem-forming suffixes (letnit, víkendovat), prefix-conversion processes (vkročit, vyjarnit), sometimes in conjunction with reflexivization (jařit se, vyčasit se, rozednit se). Some infrequent verbs (vyčasit se - časit se, rozednít se - dnít se) are probably formed by means of de-prefixation. Many of them consequently become the base word for prefix derivatives including lower frequency verbs (přestávkovat - odpřestávkovat, popřestávkovat, prázdninovat - zaprázdninovat si). They are used in different texts and some of them in specific meanings. For the reasons stated above and due to insufficient research into the topic, verbs formed from nouns with temporal meaning deserve attention. |