Word Order in a Noun Phrase and English Anaphors

WORD ORDER IN NP AND incline ANAPHORS Tereza Stifnerova The purpose of this essay is firstly to show the word order of a noun word (NP) and how the top dog noun of the NP can be post- and pre-modified, and mholy to focus on consequence of some modelings of English anaphors and the distinctions between them and their Czechoslovakianoslovakian translations. The first part is going to aim on the internal structure of NPs. Complex nominal phrase consists of the pre-modifying elements, the head noun and the post-modifying elements.The so-called pre-modifiers can be divided into two groups determiners and prenominals. We have to say that determiners argon indispensable and unique (Veselovska86), and they have a specific place in the noun phrase they be at the beginning. Among determiners we view also the possesives (my, your, etc. ). These two (determiners and possesives) are shown in (1). (1) a/the/my/mums mug Prenominals are the adjectives and secondary adjectives between th e determiners and the head noun.They are optional, which means they do not have to be in the NP, and they are recursive it means they are not lined up in a actually strict order, but there are some semantic features which affect the order. (2) a. the small old bluish wooden box b. ? the wooden toothsome old small box c. small the old blue wooden box Post-modifiers, or postnominals, can also have a fixed or a relatively complimentary order. Among elements of these category belong multiple prepositional phrases (3-4), verbs with infinitive or in the ing form (5-6), clauses (relative clause) (7), colonial adjectival phrases (8) and of-phrases (9). 3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) the gift for Jane from Peter ? the gift from Peter to Jane a girl to watch the lector direction history the gift which you gave me a girl AP more beautiful than me the student of philology Except the pass away one, the others can be lined up after the head noun in a relatively free order. (10) a book of fai rytales tied with a blue ribbon for my daughter As I said, the of-phrase has a fixed place in a word order of a NP it has to follow the head noun immediately because it is adjacent to the noun. 11) a. an office of the instructor with the white door b. * an office with the white door of the teacher In the second part I am going to translate some causes of English anaphors into Czech and then discuss the meanings of them and I will also try to show the distinctions between English and Czech forms. Here are the examples in English (a1) Theyi killed themk. (b1) Theyi killed themselvesi. (c1) Theyi killed each otheri. And the translation into Czech (a2) Oni je zabili. (b2) Oni se zabili. (c2) Oni se zabili (navzajem).The example (a1) has the index i with the pronoun they and the index k with the accusative case of the pronoun they, which means that the pronoun they have a meaning of people, which are NOT the people included in the meaning of them, i. e. them has the so-called disjoine d refference. The following examples (12), (13) and (14) show that in English the nominative and accusative cases of the pronoun they are used to mark different (groups of) people. (12) (13) (14) The thievesi killed themk. The thievesi killed the thievesk. *The thievesi killed the thievesi. the thieves ? them they are not the resembling thieves so they cannot have the same index The example (b1) has the index i in both cases it means that they and themselves includes the same people. Because themselves is a reflexive pronoun, we know that the group of people indicated in they is the same group of people as in themselves. In the example (c1) is shown the same as in the example (b1), although in this case the second pronoun is reciprocal so we know that the group of people included in they consists in this case of two people.It means that the first one killed the second one and conversely the second one killed the first one. It means that the reciprocals require the antecedent to be plural (the action or comparison takes place between the members of the set, reciprocally). (Veselovska104) These anaphors in (b1) and (c1) are also called syntactic anaphors. Syntactic anaphors have a hierarchically higher antecedent, which means they must be bound in the same clause, usually in the position of Subject or Agent (Veselovska104) as in (15) and (16). (15) (16) We saw ourselves in the mirror. To educate oneself is a plectron of every person. urselves Subject oneself Agent (of educating) In Czech it is different. The first example (a2) is very simple the pronouns intelligibly state who killed whom. Oni killed je, which means one group of people killed the other one. The examples (b2) and (c2) are in Czech corresponding in form but different in meaning. Nevertheless, in the second case we can optionally add the word navzajem, so it would be more clear who killed whom but basically, the reflexive pronoun se is global in Czech. BIBLIOGRAPHY Veselovska, Ludmila . A Course In English Morpho-Syntax. UP Olomouc, 2009