Aleš Klégr

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aleš Klégr is involved.

Title

Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Translated from the French, German and Czech sources

Josef Vachek

This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources,… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 50] 2003. ix, 213 pp.

Articles

Rudnicka, Karolina and Aleš Klégr 2023 Chapter 4. Non-verbal plural number agreement. Between the distributive plural and singular: Blocking factors and free variation Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 74–98 | Chapter

Unlike Slavic languages, such as Polish and Czech, English is assumed to prefer distributive plural agreement between the plural subject and the noun in the predicate part of the sentence. The aim of this paper is to verify this claim and (since this preference is apparently not without… read more

Čermák, František and Aleš Klégr 2004 Modality in Czech and English: Possibility particles and the conditional mood in a parallel corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 83–95 | Article

The paper examines two kinds of modality exponents and their interlingual relationships, using an aligned parallel minicorpus of two contemporary Czech originals (drama and novel) and their English translations. It focuses on four most frequent Czech adverbial particles of… read more