L’intégration du contexte dans l’analyse de la subordonnée participiale au participe passé permet d’établir plusieurs catégories de cette construction, selon qu’elle est employée seule, qu’elle contient un marqueur temporel ou l’auxiliaire étant. Lorsqu’elle n’a pas ces éléments, la construction est toujours en relation de coréférence événementielle avec son contexte d’apparition. Elle est toujours composée de verbe résultatif, borné à gauche et à droite, et est séparée de la proposition qui l’héberge par un intervalle. Deux types de constructions participiales se dégagent de cette catégorie. La première n’apporte aucune information nouvelle dans le discours. Elle indique une Généralisation du contexte antérieur et est en relation de Consécutivité avec la proposition qui l’héberge. Elle peut être un connecteur ou un introducteur de cadre temporel. La seconde est rhématique par l’aspect de son procès. C’est une Particularisation du contexte antérieur qui est souvent en relation de Narration avec la PH. La construction qui contient un marqueur temporel se rapproche de celle qui n’en a pas dans plusieurs aspects. Mais elle diffère de celle-ci parce que le marqueur peut servir à conférer au participe le caractère résultatif s’il n’en a pas, ou une autonomie syntaxique. En ce qui concerne celle qui est composée de l’auxiliaire étant, elle se distingue des deux autres dans plusieurs angles. D’abord, si elle est contextuelle, son procès est souvent distinct de celui de son contexte d’apparition. Ensuite, théoriquement, elle peut contenir n’importe quel participe passé, avec un procès borné seulement à droite, mais pas à gauche. Enfin, elle entretient avec ce contexte et avec la proposition qui l’héberge plusieurs types de relations de discours qu’on ne peut avoir avec les autres types de subordonnées participiales. / The typology of French subordinate participial clauses studied here is grounded in their context, which is shown to partially determine their distribution (‘pure’ or naked, introduced by a temporal adverbial, or yet containing the auxiliary étant ‘being’). When naked, the clause always entertains a relationship of coreference with the events denoted in the preceding context, and its verb is resultative, yielding a temporal interval between the two eventualities. In some cases, the participial clause does not introduce any new information : it simply generalises the contents of the (not necessarily immediately) preceding sentence, indicates that the main clause is consequent upon it, and functions like a discursive connective or a pure temporal adjunct. In other cases, it is rhematic, at least in so far has it provides aspectual specifications, and thus play anundeniable narrative rôle. When a temporal expression (une fois, sitôt…) introduces the clause, the semantic value of the participle is also specified, and the clause acquires a form of syntactic autonomy it does not have otherwise. Finally, when the auxiliary étant occurs, the subordinate clause can denote a hitherto unknown eventuality, whose aspectual properties are distinct from the aforementioned cases ; in particular, reference is only made to the end point, never to the beginning of the action thus described. This third type of participial clause is also shown to entertain textual and/or discursive relations with the context that are crucially different from the other types.

Perfect Participle in Contemporary French and its Equivalents in Czech The aim of the diploma thesis is a concrete corpus analysis of perfect participle in French and its functioning in absolute and adjectival constructions. The theoretical part defines perfect participle from the point of view of morphology, syntax and semantics and its part is also mapping Czech equivalents. The empirical part is based on analysis of concrete presence of participle constructions in parallel corpus InterCorp v10 with French - Czech alignment and with limitation of fictional and specialized texts. The focus is put mainly on frequency and on different types of use of this participle construction and on semantic interpretation in terms of secondary statement. Another part of the analysis deals with Czech equivalents which replace the past (compound) participle. Key words: participle, corpus analysis, French, Czech, InterCorp

The present paper reports on an investigation into an English un-participle pattern that is called unpassive, or is described as an adjectival passive. The main characteristic of the pattern is an (adjectival) past participle prefixed by un-, which is used as a predicative complement to a verb. Besides the different terms used for the pattern, there is also some indeterminacy with respect to its particular form. All of the descriptions focus on the verb BE, but mention is also made of GO and REMAIN. That is, the specifications of the pattern’s formal side differ to some extent. To provide information on this issue and to get hold of potential (verb-related) differences in the pattern’s function, we conducted an empirical analysis from a usage-based construction grammar perspective. Our focus is on the form-function interplay of the pattern in order to gain information about its constructional status and its exact formal and semantic make-up. The database selected for this study is the BNC, from which all occurrences of ‘verb plus un-participle’ were extracted. The data were submitted to collexeme and covarying collexeme analyses to identify the spectrum of meanings/functions associated with these forms, and distinctive collexeme analyses were carried out to see whether the un-participles found pattern differently with the individual verbs. The results indicate that, on closer examination, the un-participle construction does not represent a homogeneous category, but must be seen as a schematic template of related, though different, usage events that may have expanded analogously from a prototype construction. On the basis of our analyses and informed by findings from developmental studies, we suggest that the related constructions form a network.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate the translation stategies chosen by the translator when translating present and past participles in contracted sentences in a French scientific article into Swedish. Previous research shows that the French language has a predilection for an elliptical sentences structure, whereas the Swedish language prefers complete clauses. This difference could eventually cause problems during the translation process when translating the French present and past participles in contracted sentences into Swedish. The source text has been translated into Swedish. The translation of the participles has then been categorized according to the strategy chosen by the translator and then analyzed according to the theoretical models by Eriksson (1997, 2015) and Ingo (2007). Our study shows that the majority of the present and past participles in contracted sentences in the source text has been translated into complete causes in the target text. The relative clause seems to be the most common choice by the translator. However, other strategies have sometimes been chosen, often as a consequence of an already complicated sentence structure in the target text or due to stylistic choices.

The present study deals with the use of participle constructions, adverbs as well as the formal style of a French text about winemaking. The study aims to discuss my translation choices as well as studying participle constructions and adverbs while taking the cultural context in consideration. The results show that the use of present participle, gerund and past participle without auxiliary verbs as well as the use of adverbs in the beginning of a sentence, have a formal effect of the French text. However, the use of past participles with auxiliary verbs do not have such an effect. The cultural context is shown in the formal style due to grammatical choices and is also shown in the variety of the French wine vocabulary, much richer than the Swedish. To be adequate for the Swedish reader, the target text had to be less formal, to correspond to the Swedish tradition of writing clearly.

This study analyzes negative particle variation (i.e., the variable presence or absence of the negative particle ne) in synchronous French chat discourse within a labovian-inspired framework. Selected morphosyntactic, lexical, and phonological constraints are considered. Multivariate analyses performed by GoldVarb 2001 revealed that subject type (i.e., NP, [- overt] subject environment, pronoun) and the phonological environment preceding the position of neregardless of its presence or absenceare determining factors in the variation. In addition, discursive-pragmatic effect was explored in a sub-sample of data. The results indicate that ne is seldom present in verbal negation during explanatory discourse style, yet it is very likely to be retained in ludic, emphatic, and proverbial styles.

v anglickém jazyce The diploma thesis Syntax of the Czech Translation of J. R. R. Tolkien's Work is based on a comparative linguistic study concentrated on the Czech and English nonfinite verb forms and the possibilities of their usage. The thesis is founded on the analysis of selected grammatical features in John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's Silmarillion and The Hobbit, and their translations by Stanislava Pošustová and František Vrba. The examples of non-finite verb forms working as different sentence elements are preceded by a short theoretical introduction which is supposed to provide a background for the comparison of their usage. Similar examples are organized and analysed together. Within a single chapter the samples were sequenced according to the frequency in usage of the type of their translation. Apart from comparing the original with its translation it is also possible to see the differences between concrete realisations of one grammatical feature in English, and to take into account the differences between the work of the two translators. Key words Translation, infinitive, gerund, participle, syntax, Czech, English, Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Tolkien

The aim of the thesis "Non-finite clauses (infinitive, gerund, present participle) and speech" is to describe the occurence and the use of the non-finite clauses in spoken French. The situation of the non-finite clauses in speech is established by means of the analysis of the essay "Usage du gérondif et du participe présent en francais parlé et écrit : étude comparée basée sur corpus" and the inquiry. Another aim is to suggest various expressions that could replace the non-finite clauses. These expressions result from the inquiry that was made with only natives speakers responding. We also try to consider the influence of different aspects such as age, profession, nationality on the usage of the the non-finite clauses. The conclusions that we come to in the thesis should enlighten the situation of the non-finite clauses infinitive, gerund, present participle in spontaneous speech and they could also serve as a tool for French teachers in the form of a review of the present state of the issue in spoken French. KEYWORDS non-finite clause, infinitive, gerund, present participle, speech

Nesta pesquisa, estuda-se o uso do particípio na construção de tempo composto e voz passiva no português do sul do Brasil. Os objetivos específicos são (1) verificar qual a forma mais produtiva/recorrente do particípio em formações verbais; (2) tentar verificar a influência de fatores lingüísticos e extralingüísticos na opção do falante pelo uso da forma regular ou da forma irregular de particípio e; (3) realizar uma análise comparativa entre a norma ditada pela Gramática Tradicional e o uso do particípio nas formações verbais em situações reais de fala. A metodologia utilizada na pesquisa é a análise quantitativa de dados. O corpus é constituído de dados de duas naturezas: dados de 24 informantes com até 9 anos de escolaridade, provenientes de entrevistas do Projeto VARSUL, por caracterizarem o uso do particípio na fala espontânea; e dados de 22 informantes com ensino superior completo ou em andamento, provenientes de testes de produtividade, porque desejávamos levantar usos específicos do particípio irregular, como tinha chego, por exemplo, o que dificilmente seria alcançado nas entrevistas do VARSUL. Para a análise dos dados, fizemos um uso adaptado dos programas que compõem o Pacote VARBRUL. Considerando que nossa pesquisa não trata de um fenômeno variável, mas, sobretudo, investiga a regularidade de um fenômeno tipicamente alternante, optamos por aproveitar somente as informações referentes à freqüência (porcentagem) de aplicação do objeto em estudo. Os resultados preliminares mostraram que os tipos de verbos e as formações presentes nos dados do Banco VARSUL favoreceram o uso predominante do particípio regular, ainda que o irregular tenha aparecido em contextos específicos. Já nos resultados preliminares dos Testes, com os verbos e as formações verbais utilizadas, o uso do particípio se mostrou predominantemente alternante, isto é, os falantes alternaram as formas regulares e irregulares de particípio em formações com voz passiva e tempo composto, porém, algumas vezes, o uso do particípio manifestou-se como variável. / In this research, the use of participle in the building of the compound tense and the passive voice of southern Brazil Portuguese language is studied. The specific objectives are (1) verify what the most productive/recurring participle form in verbal formations is; (2) try verifying the influence of linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts when the speaker has to choose whether using the participle regular or irregular form; (3) conduct a comparative analysis between the rule prescribed by the Traditional Grammar and the use of participle in verbal forms of corpora. The methodology used in the research is data quantitative analysis. The corpus is made up of data from two different sources: data from 24 subjects with up to 9 years of study in school, deriving from interviews of the VARSUL Project, for characterizing the use of participle in the spontaneous speech; and data from 22 subjects, who were either graduate or undergraduate students, deriving from productivity tests, as we wanted to identify specific uses of irregular participle, as tinha chego (had arrived), for example, which would be hardly obtained from the interviews in VARSUL. For the data analysis, we made an adapted use of the programs that compose the VARBRUL Package. Considering that our research is not related to a variable phenomenon, but, above all, to investigate the regularity of a mainly alternate phenomenon, we decided to make use of only the information referring to the application frequency (percentage) of the subject in study. The preliminary results showed that the types of verbs and the formations present in the data in the VARSUL database favored the predominant use of the regular participle, although the irregular form was evident in specific contexts. Yet, in the preliminary results of the tests, with the verbs and the verbal formation used, the use of participle showed to be mainly alternate, i.e., the speakers alternated the use of regular and irregular forms of participle in formations with the passive voice and with the compound tense, however, the use of participle showed to be variable, at times.

Nesta pesquisa, estuda-se o uso do particípio na construção de tempo composto e voz passiva no português do sul do Brasil. Os objetivos específicos são (1) verificar qual a forma mais produtiva/recorrente do particípio em formações verbais; (2) tentar verificar a influência de fatores lingüísticos e extralingüísticos na opção do falante pelo uso da forma regular ou da forma irregular de particípio e; (3) realizar uma análise comparativa entre a norma ditada pela Gramática Tradicional e o uso do particípio nas formações verbais em situações reais de fala. A metodologia utilizada na pesquisa é a análise quantitativa de dados. O corpus é constituído de dados de duas naturezas: dados de 24 informantes com até 9 anos de escolaridade, provenientes de entrevistas do Projeto VARSUL, por caracterizarem o uso do particípio na fala espontânea; e dados de 22 informantes com ensino superior completo ou em andamento, provenientes de testes de produtividade, porque desejávamos levantar usos específicos do particípio irregular, como tinha chego, por exemplo, o que dificilmente seria alcançado nas entrevistas do VARSUL. Para a análise dos dados, fizemos um uso adaptado dos programas que compõem o Pacote VARBRUL. Considerando que nossa pesquisa não trata de um fenômeno variável, mas, sobretudo, investiga a regularidade de um fenômeno tipicamente alternante, optamos por aproveitar somente as informações referentes à freqüência (porcentagem) de aplicação do objeto em estudo. Os resultados preliminares mostraram que os tipos de verbos e as formações presentes nos dados do Banco VARSUL favoreceram o uso predominante do particípio regular, ainda que o irregular tenha aparecido em contextos específicos. Já nos resultados preliminares dos Testes, com os verbos e as formações verbais utilizadas, o uso do particípio se mostrou predominantemente alternante, isto é, os falantes alternaram as formas regulares e irregulares de particípio em formações com voz passiva e tempo composto, porém, algumas vezes, o uso do particípio manifestou-se como variável. / In this research, the use of participle in the building of the compound tense and the passive voice of southern Brazil Portuguese language is studied. The specific objectives are (1) verify what the most productive/recurring participle form in verbal formations is; (2) try verifying the influence of linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts when the speaker has to choose whether using the participle regular or irregular form; (3) conduct a comparative analysis between the rule prescribed by the Traditional Grammar and the use of participle in verbal forms of corpora. The methodology used in the research is data quantitative analysis. The corpus is made up of data from two different sources: data from 24 subjects with up to 9 years of study in school, deriving from interviews of the VARSUL Project, for characterizing the use of participle in the spontaneous speech; and data from 22 subjects, who were either graduate or undergraduate students, deriving from productivity tests, as we wanted to identify specific uses of irregular participle, as tinha chego (had arrived), for example, which would be hardly obtained from the interviews in VARSUL. For the data analysis, we made an adapted use of the programs that compose the VARBRUL Package. Considering that our research is not related to a variable phenomenon, but, above all, to investigate the regularity of a mainly alternate phenomenon, we decided to make use of only the information referring to the application frequency (percentage) of the subject in study. The preliminary results showed that the types of verbs and the formations present in the data in the VARSUL database favored the predominant use of the regular participle, although the irregular form was evident in specific contexts. Yet, in the preliminary results of the tests, with the verbs and the verbal formation used, the use of participle showed to be mainly alternate, i.e., the speakers alternated the use of regular and irregular forms of participle in formations with the passive voice and with the compound tense, however, the use of participle showed to be variable, at times.