Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University, Czech Republic
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
VALLEX - Between Reciprocity and Reflexivity: The Case of Czech Reciprocal Constructions
Reciprocity is generally understood as a complex of forms and patterns of mutuality, exchange and symmetry. From the linguistic point of view, it is characterized by the fact that some participants of the situation denoted in the sentence enter into symmetry. The main goal of the project is to deepen the theoretical description of reciprocity in Czech and to propose its adequate representation in both the grammar (in the form of formal grammatical rules covering productive grammatical processes related to reciprocity) and the lexicon.
The project thus stresses a close interplay between theoretical research and its application to extensive data annotation, which represents a fruitful strategy that fortifies both sides involved. The theoretical findings were presented in research publications. Further, the proposed model were applied to the syntactic and lexicographic description of reciprocity within the electronic lexicon VALLEX -- the lexicon has been enhanced with the information on reciprocity as well as with formal rules for reciprocity within the VALLEX project.
The full project description can be found in the project proposal.
Publications
Journal articles
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Ke způsobům vyjádření vzájemnosti v češtině. Slovo a slovesnost, Vol. 81, No 4, pp. 243-268, 2020
- Kettnerová, V.: Derived Lexical Reciprocal Verbs in Czech. Prace Filologiczne Vol. LXXV, No 1, pp. 215-240, 2020
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Reciprocity in Czech Light Verb Constructions: The Dependency Perspective. Jazykovedný časopis (Journal of Linguistics), Vol. 71, No 1, pp. 41-68, 2020
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Towards Reciprocal Deverbal Nouns in Czech: From Reciprocal Verbs to Reciprocal Nouns. Jazykovedný časopis / Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 434-443, 2019
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Mezi reflexivitou a reciprocitou: Poznámky k reflexivním a recipročním konstrukcím vybraných českých sloves. Prace Filologiczne, Vol. LXXII, pp. 133-147, 2018
- Panevová, J.: Diateze a reciprocita (na materiálu češtiny). Slavistika (Славистика), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 124-129, 2018
Chapter in a collective monograph
- Panevová, J., Lopatková, M., Kettnerová, V.: Reciproka ve slovníku a v syntaxi. Chapter in Bílková, J., Kolářová, I., Vondráček, M. (eds.) Lingvistika – korpus – empirie, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, Prague, pp. 63-70, 244 p., 2020
Papers in proceedings and collections
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M., Vernerová, A., Barančíková, P.: Towards a Semi-Automatic Detection of Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions and Their Representation in a Valency Lexicon. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), ELRA, Marseille, France, pp. 3136-3144, 2020
- Verner, J., Vernerová, A.: PyVallex: A Processing System for Valency Lexicon Data. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), ELRA, Marseille, France, pp. 7187-7193, 2020
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Reflexives in Czech from a Dependency Perspective. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, Syntaxfest 2019), ACL, Paris, France, ISBN 978-1-950737-63-5, pp. 14-25, 2019
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Lexicographic potential of the Syntactic Properties of Verbs: The Case of Reciprocity in Czech. In Čubej, J., Gorjanc, V., Kosem, I., Krek, S. (eds.) XVIII EURALEX International Congress. Lexicography in Global Contexts. Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 685-698, 2018
Public data release
- Lopatková, M., Kettnerová, V., Vernerová, A., Bejček, E., Žabokrtský, Z.: VALLEX 4.0, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ Digital Library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3498, Dec 2020
PhD thesis
- Vernerová, A.: Lexicographic treatment of the valency aspects of verbal diatheses. Ph.D. thesis, Charles University, Prague, 275 pp., 2019
Technical report
- Lopatková, M., Kettnerová, V., Vernerová, A., Bejček, E., Žabokrtský, Z.: Valenční slovník českých sloves VALLEX 4.0. Technical report, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University (in prep.)
Talks and abstracts or posters
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: The role of the reflexives in valency: Evidence from Czech. In Olga Spevak (ed.) SLE - 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University, Lipsko, pp. 161-162, 2019 (slides, abstract)
- Lopatková, M., Kettnerová, V.: The Tricky Case of Czech Reflexives. Abstract, ITAT 2018, Informačné technológie -- Aplikácie a teória, Košice, Slovensko, Praha, 2018 (poster)
Talks
- Kettnerová, V., Lopatková, M.: Reflexiva v češtině z valenčního hlediska. Talk, Seminar of Formal Linguistics, ÚFAL, MFF UK, 2019 (slides)
- Lopatková, M., Kettnerová, V.: Mezi reflexivitou a reciprocitou: Poznámky k reflexivním a recipročním konstrukcím vybraných českých sloves. Contributed talk, III. mezinárodní vědecká konference Výzkum slovesné valence ve slovanských zemích včera a dnes, Praha, Česká republika, 2018 (slides)