DOI: 10.5507/ff.14.24440606.19

On the Linguistic Structure of Evaluative Meaning in Czech

Kateřina Veselovská

In this paper we present the results of preliminary research into the linguistic structure of evaluative meaning in Czech. We describe the ways evaluative meaning is expressed in Czech using means from different layers of linguistic description, mainly morphology. Moreover, we use the construction grammar framework (see Fried and Östman 2004) to capture evaluative sentences and to depict the relationship between structure, meaning, and the use of evaluative expressions in language, joining the growing body of constructional research concerning the expressions of subjective judgment, as broadly defined (e.g., Matsumoto 2008; Fried and Östman 2005; Terkourafi 2010).

pages: 269-277



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