The aim of the thesis is to compare the verbal aspect in Spanish and Czech. The thesis has two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on defining the category of verbal aspect in both languages and on comparison of this category in these two aspectual systems. Furthemore, we pay attention to the relation of verbal aspect to the category aspecto and to the lexical aspect (Aktionsart). The practical part consists of a corpus case study carried out using the newest version of the Czech parallel corpus InterCorp. In the case study, we analyse aspectual differences between original texts in Czech and their Spanish translations. Key words: verbal aspect - verb - Spanish - Czech - parallel corpora

O objetivo deste trabalho consiste na análise do processo de gramaticalização do verbo viver, que parte de sua função original como verbo pleno e assume novas funções, ao ponto de se recategorizar como verbo quase-auxiliar, exprimindo aspecto continuativo. Segundo Heine (1993), verbos plenos produtivos nas línguas podem ser submetidos a processos de auxiliarização em níveis e forças distintos, e esses níveis e forças podem ser representados pelos padrões funcionais do verbo viver. Demonstraremos que esses deslizamentos unidirecionais movidos por abstratização são guiados por processos cognitivos correlacionados à mudança no estatuto categorial do item em processo de gramaticalização. Para fazê-lo, utilizaremos a escala de categorias cognitivas propostas por Heine, Claudi e Hünnemeyer (1991, p. 55): pessoa > objeto > processo > espaço > tempo > qualidade, em sua proposta de versão sugerida no bojo do Grupo de Pesquisa em Mudança Gramatical (Lima-Hernandes, 2009) para: pessoa > objeto > instrumento > espaço > tempo > processo > qualidade. Para realizar essa tarefa, faremos uso de um corpus composto pelos seguintes materiais: i. Dossiês do DEOPS/SP (1924 -1945), nos quais se encontram informações e documentos fundamentais para uma compreensão mais abrangente da vida política, social e cultural de São Paulo na primeira metade do século XX; ii. Debates exibidos na MTV (Music Television edição brasileira), recolhidos em um programa semanal que discute os assuntos mais polêmicos do momento com convidados especialistas, profissionais, estudantes e pessoas comuns. iii. Entrevistas variadas concedidas ao jornal Folha de S. Paulo e à revista VEJA. Com base no corpus escrito, iniciamos um exercício de busca das motivações que fazem o verbo viver ser empregado em funções mais abstratizadas. Essa busca permitirá hipotetizar a rota de mudança e norteará a hipotetização do gatilho que fez com que o falante da língua portuguesa no Brasil reanalisasse expressões linguísticas com o verbo viver pleno em estruturas de auxialirização. / The objective of this research consists in the analysis of the process of grammaticalization of the verb to live, that it has left of its original function as full verb and assumes new functions, to the point of recategorization as Quasi-auxiliary verb, expressing continuative aspect. According to Heine (1993), productive full verbs in the languages can be submitted to auxiliarization processes in distinct levels and strength, and these levels and strength may be represented by the functional standards of the verb to live. We will demonstrate that these unidirectional movements stimulated by abstraction are guided by cognitive processes correlated to the change in the categorial statute of the item in gramaticalization process. To demonstrate it, we will use the scale of cognitive categories presented by Heine, Claudi and Hünnemeyer (1991, p. 55): person > object > process > space > time > quality, in his proposition of version suggested by the Group of Research in Grammatical (Lima-Hernandes, 2009) Change to: person > object > instrument > space > time > process > quality. To carry through this research, we will use corpus arranged by the following materials: i. Dossiers of the DEOPS/SP (1924 -1945), in which it might be possible find basic information and documents that permit a better understanding of the politic, social and cultural life in São Paulo in the first half of century XX; II. Debates shown on MTV (Music Television - Brazilian edition), collected in a weekly program that argues the most controversial subjects of the moment with guests like: specialists, professionals, students and common people. III. Varying interviews granted to Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and to VEJA magazine. On the basis of written corpus, we initiate an exercise of search of the motivations that allow the verb to live being used in more abstracted function. This search will allow to get the hypothesis the change route and guide the hypothecal trigger that made with that the speaker of Portuguese language in Brazil has reanalyzed linguistic expressions with the verb to live in its full meaning in auxiliarization structures.

O objetivo deste trabalho consiste na análise do processo de gramaticalização do verbo viver, que parte de sua função original como verbo pleno e assume novas funções, ao ponto de se recategorizar como verbo quase-auxiliar, exprimindo aspecto continuativo. Segundo Heine (1993), verbos plenos produtivos nas línguas podem ser submetidos a processos de auxiliarização em níveis e forças distintos, e esses níveis e forças podem ser representados pelos padrões funcionais do verbo viver. Demonstraremos que esses deslizamentos unidirecionais movidos por abstratização são guiados por processos cognitivos correlacionados à mudança no estatuto categorial do item em processo de gramaticalização. Para fazê-lo, utilizaremos a escala de categorias cognitivas propostas por Heine, Claudi e Hünnemeyer (1991, p. 55): pessoa > objeto > processo > espaço > tempo > qualidade, em sua proposta de versão sugerida no bojo do Grupo de Pesquisa em Mudança Gramatical (Lima-Hernandes, 2009) para: pessoa > objeto > instrumento > espaço > tempo > processo > qualidade. Para realizar essa tarefa, faremos uso de um corpus composto pelos seguintes materiais: i. Dossiês do DEOPS/SP (1924 -1945), nos quais se encontram informações e documentos fundamentais para uma compreensão mais abrangente da vida política, social e cultural de São Paulo na primeira metade do século XX; ii. Debates exibidos na MTV (Music Television edição brasileira), recolhidos em um programa semanal que discute os assuntos mais polêmicos do momento com convidados especialistas, profissionais, estudantes e pessoas comuns. iii. Entrevistas variadas concedidas ao jornal Folha de S. Paulo e à revista VEJA. Com base no corpus escrito, iniciamos um exercício de busca das motivações que fazem o verbo viver ser empregado em funções mais abstratizadas. Essa busca permitirá hipotetizar a rota de mudança e norteará a hipotetização do gatilho que fez com que o falante da língua portuguesa no Brasil reanalisasse expressões linguísticas com o verbo viver pleno em estruturas de auxialirização. / The objective of this research consists in the analysis of the process of grammaticalization of the verb to live, that it has left of its original function as full verb and assumes new functions, to the point of recategorization as Quasi-auxiliary verb, expressing continuative aspect. According to Heine (1993), productive full verbs in the languages can be submitted to auxiliarization processes in distinct levels and strength, and these levels and strength may be represented by the functional standards of the verb to live. We will demonstrate that these unidirectional movements stimulated by abstraction are guided by cognitive processes correlated to the change in the categorial statute of the item in gramaticalization process. To demonstrate it, we will use the scale of cognitive categories presented by Heine, Claudi and Hünnemeyer (1991, p. 55): person > object > process > space > time > quality, in his proposition of version suggested by the Group of Research in Grammatical (Lima-Hernandes, 2009) Change to: person > object > instrument > space > time > process > quality. To carry through this research, we will use corpus arranged by the following materials: i. Dossiers of the DEOPS/SP (1924 -1945), in which it might be possible find basic information and documents that permit a better understanding of the politic, social and cultural life in São Paulo in the first half of century XX; II. Debates shown on MTV (Music Television - Brazilian edition), collected in a weekly program that argues the most controversial subjects of the moment with guests like: specialists, professionals, students and common people. III. Varying interviews granted to Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and to VEJA magazine. On the basis of written corpus, we initiate an exercise of search of the motivations that allow the verb to live being used in more abstracted function. This search will allow to get the hypothesis the change route and guide the hypothecal trigger that made with that the speaker of Portuguese language in Brazil has reanalyzed linguistic expressions with the verb to live in its full meaning in auxiliarization structures.

A partir de ocorrências retiradas de textos dos jornais Folha de São Paulo e La Nación, foi possível descrever as condições de uso e os valores semânticos representados pela perífrase [estar + gerúndio/estar + gerundio] com auxiliar em pretérito perfeito simples numa amostra coletada modalidade escrita do português brasileiro e do espanhol platino, na esfera jornalística. Da análise qualitativa e da observação contrastiva entre as perífrases em tempo perfeito, verificaram-se, na amostra coletada, três principais valores imperfectivos, sendo eles o durativo, o iterativo e o destelizador. Os resultados revelaram, ainda, que, entre esses subtipos aspectuais, destaca-se, em ambas as línguas, nas variantes observadas, uma forte tendência à expressão da duratividade de eventos representados simbolicamente como contínuos. Constatou-se, também, que a perífrase perfectiva no PB apresenta um emprego mais restrito, o que se justifica inclusive pela sua maior incompatibilidade com determinadas bases léxicas. Na variedade platina observada, além dos frequentes enunciados de caráter durativo, encontrou-se uma quantidade maior de ocorrências que, em função das características dos lexemas, permitem, com mais frequência, as leituras iterativa e destelizada dos predicados. / From instances of texts taken from the newspapers Folha de Sao Paulo and La Nación, it was possible to describe the conditions of use and the semantic values represented by the periphrasis [estar + gerúndio/estar + gerundio] with auxiliary in simple past tense in a sample collected in the written form of the Brazilian Portuguese and River Plate Spanish, in the journalistic sphere. From the qualitative analysis and contrastive observation between periphrases in perfect tense, in the sample collected, three core imperfect values were identified, they are: the durative, the iterative and the detelizer. The results have also revealed that among these aspectual varieties, a strong tendency towards the expression of durative events represented symbolically as continuous stand out in both languages. It was also found that the perfective periphrasis in BP has a more restricted use, which is justified by its greater incompatibility with certain lexical bases. In the River Plate variety, besides the frequent durative character statements, a greater number of occurrences was found which, due to the characteristics of lexemes, allowing detelized and iterative readings of the predicates more frequently.

L’évidence morphologique de l'aspect verbal dans les langues slaves en fait un sujet d'étude bien connu, mais ce domaine demeure peu exploré pour ce qui est de la langue croate. Ce travail, qui s'appuie pour l'appareil théorique sur plusieurs travaux traitant de l'aspect verbal et des valeurs aspecto-temporelles en BCMS et dans d'autres langues slaves, complète dans un premier temps les connaissances sur le comportement aspectuel de l'infinitif et dresse une liste de ses valeurs aspectuelles dans toutes ses fonctions, notamment en tant que complément des verbes modaux des domaines sémantiques pouvoir, devoir et vouloir. Au-delà de cette analyse, il offre une série d'algorithmes établis sur les facteurs (im)perfectivants, et permettant de résoudre le problème du choix aspectuel dans de multiples situations données. Posant comme prémisse que les informations contribuant à déterminer les choix et les valeurs de l'aspect sont pour une bonne partie recelées dans le sémantisme du verbe à l'infinitif et le procès qu'il dénote, ce travail explore l'influence des propriétés de la situation référentielle sur le choix aspectuel. Afin d'éviter une confusion entre valeurs aspectuelles et contenus sémantiques, sont traités séparément l'infinitif indépendant, l'infinitif complément de verbes de modalité, puis des verbes modaux. Il s'avère que les facteurs qui motivent le choix de l'aspect des infinitifs sont d'origines différentes et relèvent de la nature de la notion verbale et des propriétés du procès référentiel. En ce qui concerne l'impact du semi-auxiliaire, il n'est lié au choix de l'aspect que dans la mesure où il contribue à créer une situation référentielle. / Due to its morphological markedness, the verbal aspect in Slavic languages is a well-known subject of study, but this area remains little explored in terms of the Croatian language. This thesis, whose theoretical apparatus is based on several works dealing with the verbal aspect as well as aspectual and temporal values in BCMS and other Slavic languages, completes the knowledge about the behavior of the aspectual infinitive, and lists its aspectual values in all its functions, including a complement of verbs expressing modality, namely, "can", "must" and "want". Together with this analysis, the thesis offers a series of algorithms developed on the factors of (im)perfectivation, which answer the question of aspectual choice in many given situations. Posing as a premise that the information that helps to determine aspectual choices and values is mainly harbored in the semantics of the infinitive and the act it denotes, this thesis explores the influence of referential situation properties on the aspectual choice. To avoid confusion between aspectual values and semantic content, we treated the independent infinitive and infinitive complement of modality or modal verbs separately. The results of the study show that the factors that motivate the choice of infinitives have different origins and deal with the properties of verbal concept and reference situation. The semi-auxiliary verb has some influence only insofar it helps to create a reference situation.

This dissertation analyses seven modern Bible translations in French with respect to their renderings of Koine Greek participles. The sample consists of the Passion Story from the four Gospels (Matt 26-28, Mark 14-16, Luke 22-24 and John 18-21), and is comprised of 603 Hellenistic participles in all. The participle forms are studied in six categories according to their syntactic function. The comparison focuses on differences in translation strategy, i.e. formal equivalence, omission and different kinds of transpositions, with special attention given to the choice of verb form. There is a discussion of the adequacy of contemporary, explicative theories of systemic differences between the passé simple/passé composé and the imparfait. A large number of examples are analysed in detail. The results of the survey show that the most prominent differences in translation strategies concern the predicative participle. Furthermore, this was the category that occurred most frequently in the sample. The Catholic scientific and literary translation La Bible de Jérusalem (1998) is the most literal of the seven versions. A high level of formal equivalence is also registered in the other scientific translation, La Traduction Œcuménique de la Bible (1988), even though application of this strategy outweighs the use of finite verbs, that is to say, the most common transposition. La Bible en français courant (1996) is the least literal: generally, it transposes the participle of the source text with a finite verb. This transposition is also very frequent in the literary La Bible de la Pléiade (1971). Most of the omissions are recorded in the recent literary La Bible, Nouvelle traduction (2001), which is shown to be the most divergent translation. Omissions are also frequent in the pastoral La Bible des moines de Maredsous (1968) and the liturgical La Traduction liturgique de la Bible (1977). When translated in conjunction with an element comprising a verb in one of the non-indicative moods (infinitive, imperative, participle and subjunctive), both the present and the aorist predicative participles are, to a large extent, rendered by a simple form, expressing non-accomplishment. However, the Bible de Jérusalem stands out with its greater use of compound present participles than any other version. When the predicative participle of the source text is transposed with a verb in the indicative mood, the passé simple is generally used to render the aorist; for the present participle, the imparfait is more frequent than the passé simple. Nevertheless, here too the passé simple accounts for a significant portion of the equivalents, especially in the two translations where transpositions formed by finite verbs are particularly important. There exist a few cases where some translators chose to use the passé simple/passé compose, while others chose the imparfait. The various details, tables and linguistic analyses in this dissertation provide a solid basis for accurately characterizing the various modern attempts made at reproduce this ancient text – a text so often translated, paraphrased, interpreted and deeply integrated in our cultural heritage.

The goal of this dissertation is to propose and develop theoretical linguistic basis for the branch of Czech as a foreign language. Specifically, it deals with the complex linguistic description of Czech grammar in the function of a foreign language, which would introduce a theoretical solution for the processing of didactic grammars of Czech for foreigners. This description is supposed to provide such a range of linguistic information, which depending on the purpose, enables the variable processing of language structures and simultaneously clarifying the relationships and connections between them. Above mentioned linguistic description of Czech as a foreign language is focused on a specific group of non-native speakers, in our case, a group of non-native speakers, whose mother tongue is German. As it is a model process of description in this dissertation, the attention is only paid to the selected grammatical categories of Czech, namely the grammatical category of the genitive of substantives and verbal aspect. The issue of the description of the grammar of a natural language is initially discussed in general terms, in the part where we define the types of grammars that are relevant to our work. Subsequently we characterize both languages, i.e. Czech and German, in the terms of their differentiation, stratification and typological point of view. The particular linguistic description and its model application, which is the core of this work, is called a modified linguistic description with the reference to Dolník J. (1993). This description is based on five sources. These are the theoretical works of leading Czech and Slovak linguists, dealing with the issue of natural language and works describing Czech grammar. Further starting points for the proposed comprehensive description of Czech grammar is to define particular reference levels according to SERR for Czech as a foreign language, a research unit focused on the target group of non-native speakers and their perception of the difficulties of Czech grammatical phenomena, and last but not least, the research probe carried out in the particular corpora of the Czech National Corpus.

The topic of this dissertation concerns with the analysis of baroque period's grammatical aspect in Czech language. In the first part I focus on the modernheoretical literature about the grammatical aspect and related verbal categories. Subsequently I interpret the classification, meanings and assumed usage of the grammatical aspect presented by authors of baroque grammar books. On the grounds of this study I create a methodological basis for practical research, define the main concepts as well as terms and I set hypotheses about the baroque aspect system. Thereafter I try to verify the hypothesis using the verbal material excerpted from the original texts. The cornerstone of my research is the grammatical aspect recorded in the literary texts of the baroque epoch. The grammatical aspects in these texts are assessed from the view of verbal system, their semantic meaning and formal realization. Moreover, I explore some important grammatical phenomena closely associated with the grammatical aspect, such as tenses, lexical aspects and transgressive constructions. The presented dissertation sets a goal to describe the state of baroque grammatical aspects and their application in contemporary literature as thorough as possible. Besides it aims to specify the trend resulting in a full integration of grammatical aspects into the Czech verbal system.

A partir de ocorrências retiradas de textos dos jornais Folha de São Paulo e La Nación, foi possível descrever as condições de uso e os valores semânticos representados pela perífrase [estar + gerúndio/estar + gerundio] com auxiliar em pretérito perfeito simples numa amostra coletada modalidade escrita do português brasileiro e do espanhol platino, na esfera jornalística. Da análise qualitativa e da observação contrastiva entre as perífrases em tempo perfeito, verificaram-se, na amostra coletada, três principais valores imperfectivos, sendo eles o durativo, o iterativo e o destelizador. Os resultados revelaram, ainda, que, entre esses subtipos aspectuais, destaca-se, em ambas as línguas, nas variantes observadas, uma forte tendência à expressão da duratividade de eventos representados simbolicamente como contínuos. Constatou-se, também, que a perífrase perfectiva no PB apresenta um emprego mais restrito, o que se justifica inclusive pela sua maior incompatibilidade com determinadas bases léxicas. Na variedade platina observada, além dos frequentes enunciados de caráter durativo, encontrou-se uma quantidade maior de ocorrências que, em função das características dos lexemas, permitem, com mais frequência, as leituras iterativa e destelizada dos predicados. / From instances of texts taken from the newspapers Folha de Sao Paulo and La Nación, it was possible to describe the conditions of use and the semantic values represented by the periphrasis [estar + gerúndio/estar + gerundio] with auxiliary in simple past tense in a sample collected in the written form of the Brazilian Portuguese and River Plate Spanish, in the journalistic sphere. From the qualitative analysis and contrastive observation between periphrases in perfect tense, in the sample collected, three core imperfect values were identified, they are: the durative, the iterative and the detelizer. The results have also revealed that among these aspectual varieties, a strong tendency towards the expression of durative events represented symbolically as continuous stand out in both languages. It was also found that the perfective periphrasis in BP has a more restricted use, which is justified by its greater incompatibility with certain lexical bases. In the River Plate variety, besides the frequent durative character statements, a greater number of occurrences was found which, due to the characteristics of lexemes, allowing detelized and iterative readings of the predicates more frequently.

Le but du programme d’études est de vérifier F influence relative du contenu verbal et des expressions non verbales des patients sur la perception de leur transfert et sur le contre-transfert vécus par les participants. Pour évaluer ces effets, un protocole expérimental est construit à partir de quatre extraits authentiques de thérapie. Chaque extrait dure entre cinq et dix minutes et montre des patients qui s’expriment en allemand. Les aspects non verbaux du patient correspondent au signal audiovisuel de l’extrait. Le contenu verbal correspond quant à lui à la traduction présentée à l’écran, en temps réel, à l’aide de sous-titres. Puisque les participants ne comprennent pas l’allemand, le contenu verbal et les expressions non verbales peuvent être manipulés de façon indépendante. La perception du transfert est évaluée à l’aide du “ Core Conflictual Relationship Theme ” de Luborsky, alors que le contre-transfert est mesuré à l’aide des tendances à l’action de Frijda. Le programme expérimental comprend deux études. Étant donné son caractère innovateur, la première doit vérifier la faisabilité du protocole expérimental à partir du seul contenu verbal des extraits. Pour ce faire, 55 étudiants universitaires (baccalauréat) sont recrutés. Dans l’ensemble, les résultats supportent la faisabilité du protocole. Ils indiquent que les participants sont capables de discriminer de façon significative le transfert des quatre patients et qu’ils réagissent de façon différente à certains d’entre eux. La deuxième étude vise à quantifier l’effet des variables indépendantes sur les variables dépendantes à partir du design expérimental complet (4 contenus verbaux x 6 expressions non verbales).Pour ce faire, 41 thérapeutes d’expérience sont recrutés. Les résultats montrent que le contenu verbal et les expressions non verbales influencent l’un et l’autre la perception du transfert et le contre-transfert des participants. En accord avec les travaux de Fernândez-Dols et collaborateurs, les résultats suggèrent que l’influence du contenu verbal et des expressions non verbales varient de façon inverse : plus l’une est élevée, plus l’autre est faible. Les résultats soulèvent également la possibilité que l’effet respectif du contenu verbal et des expressions non verbales soit modulé par le sexe des patients.