The diploma thesis deals with the distinction of attributive and predicative adjectives in contemporary Czech. Although this distinction is very important for defining adjectives as a word class in many languages, there was only little attention paid to it in Czech so far. This thesis is based on the work of František Čermák Lexikon a sémantika (2010). It is strongly inspired by english tradition of linguistics, which is also a reason, why he introduces a new term predicative adjectives in Czech. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part contains theoretical description of predicative and attributive function of adjectives. It is based on information contained in czech and foreign grammarbooks, handbooks or research papers. The goal is to summarize these separate information. The theoretical part deals with the basic characteristic of both types of adjectives, it focuses also on description of their semantics, word form and valency, which depends on it. This part contains definitions of some questionable points or inaccuracies of these descriptions too. The second part of this thesis is given to corpus research. The questionable points or inaccuracies of the descriptions defined in the first part of this thesis are examined on the material of Czech national corpus, concretely the corpus SYN2010....

I bibelhebreiska texter av olika genrer används det aktiva participet i både nominala och verbala funktioner. I flera språk används det aktiva participet ofta i en progressiv handling i imperfektiv aspekt som till exempel ’springande’. Den temporala innebörden kan vara både nutid, framtid och dåtid. Syftet med denna undersökning var att beskriva det aktiva participet och dess funktion samt frekvens i textanalys av två bibelhebreiska prosatexter. Finns det en diakronisk ut- veckling mellan en tidig och en senare bibelhebreisk narrativ text.? Frågeställningarna var om frekvensen ökar i den senare bibelhebreiska texten samt om användningen av aktivt particip i predikativ funktion ökar jämfört med övriga funktioner. Vilka TAM-värden såsom tempus och aspekt används i texterna? Vilka verblexem är mest förekommande? Undersökningens metod var en deskriptiv analys av en tidig text i Josua kapitel 1–5 samt en senare bibelhebreisk text i 2 Krönikeboken kapitel 17–20. Resultatet visade en ökad förekomst av aktiva particip i predikativ funktion jämfört med aktiva particip i nomen eller attributiv/relativ funktion i den senare texten i 2 Krönikebo- ken jämfört med Josua. Detta har bibelhebreiska forskare tidigare uppmärksammat. Tem- pus är framför allt framtid eller nutid i Josua 1–5 medan dåtid står för drygt hälften av ak- tiva particip i 2 Krön. 17–20. De vanligaste verblexemen i predikativ funktion i de valda texterna är ’ge’, ’stå’ och ’gå över’, ’komma’, ’sitta’ samt ’profetera’ beroende på textens innehåll. Analysen visade även förekomst av intressanta tempusmarkörer och grammatiska konstruktioner såsom hinnēh ’se här!’och historiskt presens. Aspekten för de aktiva partici- pen är framför allt imperfektiv pågående och progressiv, vilket är det aktiva participets hu- vuddrag. Men även perfektiv aspekt förekommer. Slutsatsen är att aktiva particip i predikativ funktion ökar i texten i 2 Krönikeboken jäm- fört med Josua. Är det en diakronisk utveckling av aktiva particip i det bibelhebreiska språket över tid eller beror ökningen på skillnader i olika språkstilar? / In texts of Biblical Hebrew from diverse genres the active participle is used in both nomi- nal and verbal functions. In several languages the active participle is often used in a pro- gressive event in the aspect of imperfective as ‘running’. The temporal meaning can be both present, future and past. The aim of this thesis was to describe the active participle and its function and fre- quency in textual analysis of two texts of prose in Biblical Hebrew. Is there a diachronic development between an early and a later Hebrew narrative text? The questions were whether the frequency increases in the later biblical Hebrew text and whether the use of ac- tive participle in predicative function increases compared to other functions. What TAM values such as tense and aspect are used in the texts? Which verblexems are most com- mon? The method of the research was a descriptive analysis of an early text in the book of Joshua, chapters 1-5 as well as a later biblical Hebrew text in 2 Chronicles chapters 17-20. The result showed an increased occurrence of active participles in predicative function compared to active participles in noun or attributive/relative function in the later text of 2 Chronicles compared to Joshua. Biblical Hebrew scholars have earlier noticed this. Tense is primarily future or present in Joshua 1–5, while past tense accounts for just over half of active participles in 2 Chronicles. 17–20. The most common verb lexemes in predicative function in the selected texts are ‘give’, ‘stand’ and ‘go over’ as well as ‘prophesy’. These are depending on the content of the text. The analysis also showed the presence of interesting tense markers and grammatical con- structions such as hinnēh 'see here!' and historical present. The aspect of the active partici- ple is above all imperfective continuous and progressive, which is the main feature of the active participle. But also, perfective aspect occurs. The conclusion is that active participles in predicative function increase in the text of 2 Chronicles compared to Joshua. Is it a diachronic development of active participles in the biblical Hebrew language over time or is the increase due to differences in different language styles?

The objective of the thesis is to describe and compare the modifying uses of two adjectives which can appear both as premodifiers as well as bare postmodifiers, namely available and responsible. Both modifying positions are examined with respect to the textual environment, the complexity of noun phrases and adjective phrases in which the adjectives function, reference and other features in order to outline the patterns in which these two adjectives appear. The data for the analytical part have been extracted from the British National Corpus using the basic query and limiting the search to the written part of the corpus. After manual assessment of the initial samples of 500 concordance lines, 154 concordance lines containing the adjective available and 147 containing the adjective responsible proved to be suitable for the analysis. The final samples of the data are further categorized and analysed concerning the complexity of the noun phrase, premodification, postmodification and complementation of the adjectives, semantic preference of the head nouns, and the motivation for the pre- or postnominal placement of the modifiers. Key words: adjective, adjective phrase, premodification, postmodification, complementation, attributive function, predicative function, postpositive function, bare adjective,...