Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2020
Abstract
In the present contribution, the main constituting features of the Functional Generative Description as proposed by Petr Sgall and his collaborators are introduced together with short characteristics of selected Czech grammatical phenomena within this framework. These phenomena include mainly the verbal and nominal valency and related issues and topic-focus articulation, esp. in relation to negation and presupposition.
Further, attention is paid to the categorization of deletions and the related phenomenon of a general participant. Main tenets of FGD have been applied, verified and further refined in the Prague Dependency Treebanks family and valency lexicons, which are briefly characterized here as well.