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An Actant or a Free Modification? (On Untypical Forms in Valency Patterns of Nouns)

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2018

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate how to treat some difficult phenomena related to non-standard expression of valency patterns of Czech deverbal nouns. We introduce some new attributes to indicate (i) alternative, stylistically marked forms of actants expressed by secondary prepositions, and (ii) marginal forms of actants expressed by primary prepositions.

We show that the number of forms of adnominal actants is often increased in comparison with the verbal ones, differentiating regular forms and alternative forms. We also discuss cases of ambiguous forms of two different actants and give criteria for their interpretation.