Michaela Martinková
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michaela Martinková is involved.
Articles
2025 Marking similarity “in the style of”: Czech prepositional phrases with (non-)taxonomic nouns in contrast with Polish Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage, Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 377–404 | Article
This paper compares Czech and Polish prepositional phrases formed with non-taxonomic abstract nouns such as styl ‘style’ or duch ‘spirit’. It analyzes their syntactic functions, surrounding contexts (especially co-occurrence with indefinite pronouns), and semantic-pragmatic extensions, including… read more
2023 On similative demonstratives in Czech and English: Evidence from corpora Converging paradigms in contrastive and translation studies: Crosslinguistic corpus perspectives, Bernardini, Silvia and Adriano Ferraresi (eds.), pp. 133–160 | Article
This paper is a contrastive corpus-based study of similative demonstratives, a major means of expressing similarity and ad-hoc categorization. It explores the divergence between the Czech demonstrative takový and its English dictionary equivalent such in their “atypical” – extended, or… read more