Radek Čech
List of John Benjamins publications in which Radek Čech is involved.
Articles
2025 Distributional properties of linear dependency segments Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos (eds.), pp. 60–69 | Chapter
The linear dependency segment is a new language unit which combines word order with syntactic dependency structure. It has been demonstrated that it obeys the Menzerath-Altmann law. In this paper, we show that its rank-frequency distribution and length distribution also behave analogously to… read more
2024 Development of the word order of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in Czech translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14th to the 21st century Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:3, pp. 385–426 | Article
The paper studies the development of several properties of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in the Czech language. We focus on the word order position of the reflexive and on the influence which the length of the initial phrase has on the position. We also investigate the… read more
2021 On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros (eds.), pp. 9–20 | Chapter
This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between the length of the initial phrase and the positions of pronominal enclitics in a clause. The hypothesis predicting the negative correlation between the length of the phrase and the proportion of enclitics in the post-initial position was… read more