Bohemica Olomucensia

Secondary Prepositional and Conjunctive Forms in Spoken Communication

The paper focuses on the occurrence of functional-semantic shifts from full-meaning means to non-full-meaning grammatical means in the spoken communication. The author notes the penetration of desemantized analytical structures into speech. This mainly concerns the functional transposition of fixed forms of nouns, verbs, and adverbs to prepositional and conjunctive expressions and their appropriate description in new functions. The text takes into account secondary forms that are neutralized (kvůli, mimoto), not fully anchored in terms of part of speech (formou, eventuálně), and multi-word forms with a written language feature (na základě, po stránce, počítaje v to). The author notes the penetration of extensive analytical phrases typical of written texts in factual styles into everyday spoken communication. He notes the oversight of the fact that many fixed prepositional expressions (vzhledem k, nehledně na, ohledně) are regularly part of complex conjunctive expressions (vzhledem k tomu(,) že, nehledně na to(,) co, ohledně toho(,) jak). He also raises the difficult question of which reduced forms of textual connectors should be included in the newly emerging dictionary (poněvadž - páč).

Keywords: transposition of parts of speech; preposition; conjunction; particle; spoken language