Adnominal partitive genitive in the Czech written journalism: diachronic and synchronic perspectives
2023
Abstract
In this paper, we try to analyse the partitive genitive, i.e. one of the adnominal genitive semantic subtypes from a diachronic and synchronic view. We focus on Czech journalistic texts from different periods, i.e. diachronic from 1848 to 1915 and synchronic from 1950 to 2000.
We compare the usage of the adnominal genitive particularly in Czech in these periods and, based on our data, we point out that there is a decrease in the use of specific types of adnominal genitives in Czech, e.g. partitive or possessive genitives, on the one hand, and that there is an increase in specific types, e.g. affiliation or dedicative.