Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2014
Abstract
In this paper we present a preliminary research into the linguistic structure of evaluative meaning in Czech. We describe the ways the evaluative meaning is modelled in Czech using means from different layers of linguistic description, mainly morphology.
Moreover, we use the construction grammar framework (see Fried and Östman 2004) to capture evaluative sentences and to depict the relationship between structure, meaning and use of evaluative expressions in language, joining the growing body of constructional research concerning the expressions of subjective judgement, broadly defined (e.g. Matsumoto 2008, Fried and Östman 2009, Terkourafi 2010).