THE VERB ’STAND’ IN THE LOCATIVE SENTENCES OF THE SLOVAK LANGUAGE

Keywords: Slovak, locative sentences, quasi-copula

Abstract

Our article aims to present the rules of use of the Slovak quasi-copula meaning ’stand’. The study is part of a series of research carried out in the Uralistics Research Group of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics. In Slovak, as in Hungarian and several other languages, the verb ’stand’ has been grammaticalized and has become a quasi-copula used in locative and existential sentences. In the framework of the analysis, we present the list of the objects in the locative sentences whose location is typically described using the quasi-copula ’stand’. Our results show that, in addition to the geometric properties of the object (height, prominent verticality), the aspect of functionality is also very important. In general, ’stand’ expresses if the orientation of the object is such that the object is capable of performing its role, i.e. in Slovak locative sentences, a visual similarity is not the only basis for the presence of the posture verb ’stand’ as a verbal element.

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01. 11. 2024.
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