The Competition of the Definite Article and Possessive Pronous – Marcela Vysloužilová
Marcela Vysloužilová
Master's thesis
The Competition of the Definite Article and Possessive Pronous
The Competition of the Definite Article and Possessive Pronous
Abstract:
The diploma thesis examines the competition between the definite article and possessive pronouns. The theoretical part concernes with the study of literature, mainly the grammar books by Quirk, Poldauf and Dušková. However, this phenomenon is not thoroughly described, so the focus of this thesis rests on its own research. British National Corpus, which is a database containing 100 million word collection …moreAbstract:
Diplomová práce zkoumá konkurenci určitého členu a přivlastňovacího zájmena. V teoretické části se opírá o studium literatury (zejména gramatik od autorů Quirk, Poldauf, Dušková). Protože tato problematika není detailněji zpracována, hlavní centrum práce spočívá ve vlastním výzkumu. V praktické části je používán Britský národní korpus, což je databáze obsahující 100 milionů slov mluveného i psaného …moreKeywords
Competition definite article possessive pronouns British National Corpus parts of the body clothing family members semantics grammaticalization stylistics interchangeability masculine style of speech impersonal context personal context prepositional phrase manner of action generic reference specific reference
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 22. 4. 2008
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 29. 5. 2008
- Supervisor: Václav Řeřicha
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Univerzita Palackého
Filozofická fakultaMaster programme / field:
Filologie / Anglická filologie
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