Resultative constructions with the short and full form of the n-/t-participle. Results from the Czech National Corpus after the introduction of a new morphological tag
Abstract
Until recently, the full form of the n-/t-participle was tagged in the Czech National Corpus as a common adjective. Only with the new corpus SYN2020 a special tag was introduced.
This allows for research the role of both the short and the full form of the n-/t-participle with resultatives in written Standard Czech texts. The results show that the full form of the participle has in most contexts a significantly higher frequency than the short form.
The only excerptions are subject and object resultatives without subject (Je zataženo / Je otevřeno) and possessive resultatives without object (Mají zavřeno), both with the participle in the neuter singular form. In these cases the full forms seldom occur in actual written Czech texts.
The use of the new tag in other corpora than SYN2020 will allow for better research of full forms of the n-/t-participle in Czech, not only in resultative constructions.