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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2012

What kind of element is 'že' in Czech?

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This paper examines the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the morpheme že 'that' in subordinate and independent clauses in Czech. I show that že does not have the same properties in these two contexts. In embedded contexts, že combines with a declarative clause (proposition) and obligatorily marks its syntactic dependence. In independent contexts, že appears in interrogative clauses or in declarative clauses associated with exclamation, and it triggers a particular (echo or tag) interpretation. However, in all contexts, že seems to indicate a discrepancy between the speaker's and someone else commitment to a same proposition.

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Linguistique
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hal-00707064 , version 1 (11-06-2012)

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Hana Gruet-Skrabalova. What kind of element is 'že' in Czech?. M. Docekal & M. Zikova. Slavic Languages in Formal Grammar, Peter Lang, pp.33-47, 2012. ⟨hal-00707064⟩

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