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Fish and its fisherman. Paradigmatic and derivative length in Czech

  • Roman Sukač
Published/Copyright: May 2, 2013
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Abstract

It is argued that Czech length can be described as both “paradigmatic” and “derivative”. Derivative quantity is a cover term for any quantitative changes connected with derivation of words. Paradigmatic quantity means the distribution of quantity in declination and conjugation. My analysis here is limited to mainly disyllabic nouns and their disyllabic derivatives with -ař/-ář suffix (type rybář). Paradigmatic quantity depends on the key paradigmatic cases and nouns can be distributed among quantitative paradigms. Derivative quantity does not change in flexion and its distribution depends on the existence of the disyllabic, maximally threemoraic domain. However, this domain is regular only in certain derivative categories and only in certain synchronic level.

Published Online: 2013-05-02
Published in Print: 2013-04

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