Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2010
Abstract
Three types of subordinate clauses express the dependence of the event they denote on an event that is denoted by the governing clause: these are the result clause (henceforth RC), the purpose clause (henceforth PC), and the minimum requirement clause (henceforth MRC). This paper analyzes the semantics of various forms of event consecutiveness expressed by these three clause types in Swedish (mainly based on Clausén et al., 2003, pp. 633-639) and Czech (besed on Karlík et al., 1995), respectively.
Findings in a 2-million Swedish-Czech parallel corpus suggest that different languages may exhibit different clause-type preferences (RC/PC/MRC) when referring to consecutive events of the same type.