http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96202 Volume 2015 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:42:28 GMT 2026-04-23T07:42:28Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97210 Foreign given names in Spanish youth: evidence of a globalized society Luján-García, Carmen; Luján-García Carmen, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria This paper provides evidence of the impact of the Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. Societal phenomena such as globalization, migration and the media are observable in every area of Spanish people’s daily life. This study reveals the extent of the popularity of foreign given names, mostly English, in Spanish society. English given names seem to be currently associated with such values as high fashion and social prestige. Study of variables frequency, gender and age reveal that the choice of English first names is becoming very popular. A comparative analysis of English given names in the 1960s and in the 2010s in Spain is carried out. The dataset was collected from the Spanish Institute of Statistics (INE) and the results report that English first names occur quite frequently among people aged 25 years or younger and therefore represent a new tendency. The paper includes discussion of adaptations of some of the examined English names to Spanish. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97210 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97139 Linearity in functional sentence perspective: the strength of the weak factor Smolka, Vladislav When the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) is applied to English, the linear arrangement of clause constituents is considered the weakest of the four factors indicating the distribution of communicative dynamism over a sentence, following the contextual factor, the semantic factor and, in spoken language, the prosodic prominence. The relative weakness of linearity as an FSP factor results from the limited positional mobility of clause constituents in English, where the position of an element in the sentence primarily indicates its syntactic function. However, the linear distribution of clause constituents may sometimes override the other factors and become the principal indicator of FSP. In such cases, the importance of linearity is signalled by the choice of an arrangement that is normally dispreferred because it conflicts with the usual wordorder principles. These deviations from the usual word order include, for example, movement of a constituent from its usual position and instances of flouting the principle of end-weight. This paper explores the range of structures where linearity overrides the other FSP factors and the conditions under which it can assert itself as the leading indicator of FSP. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97139 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97037 Tough-constructions and the issue of thematicity: a study of the word easy in 17th and 18th century English Popelíková, Jiřina This article presents an analysis of tough-constructions (TCs) which attempts to describe the formal syntactic properties of these constructions in light of their functional sentence perspective (FSP). It has been suggested by Quirk et al. (1985), Mair (1989) and Biber et al. (1999) that the usage of TCs appears to be motivated, inter alia, by the information structure of the sentence’s content, i.e. the ordering of individual clause elements in such a way that the linear arrangement complies with, or at least closely imitates, the natural progression of an utterance from what is circumstantially given to what is immediately new. TCs, therefore, are expected to be favoured in situations when the noun phrase in the position of their subject is functionally thematic, containing a piece of information that has already been mentioned in the previous discourse. The present study is based on the data obtained from the Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary’s Accounts published between the years 1675 and 1775. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97037 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96977 Paradigmatik der deutschen Adjektive in der Großen lexikalischen Datenbank Deutsch Vachková Marie The article focusing on the latest research in antonymy (Jones et al. 2012) proposes to see this lexical- semantic relation in its broader sense (oppositeness) because this view meets the needs of lexicographers who aim at a more realistic description of a variety of semantic contrasts on the parole level. The text points out issues concerning lexical selection methods on the paradigmatic level with the help of the cooccurrence analysis. Examples of web search strings which help to elicit constructions containing antonym pairs are given. These ways show an urgent need to describe antonymy in constructions which emerge in authentic language usage, not on the systemic level (langue) only. The author emphasizes that exemplifying antonymy should be rethought in the domain of word-formation: formal regularities prevail on the system level only; however, the usage shows antonymy pairs with a wide range of possible contrasts.; Der Artikel geht von der neueren Forschung im Bereich der Antonymie aus (Jones et al. 2012) und plädiert für eine breitere Auffassung der Gegensätzlichkeit für die lexikographischen Zwecke. Die lexikalisch-semantischen Relationen sollten im Wörterbuch auf der Ebene der Parole dargestellt werden, um dem Benutzer mindestens einen Teil der großen Vielfalt an semantischen Kontrasten zu bieten. Zur Auswahl der Belege dient außer der Kookkurrenzanalyse auch die Internetsuche, bei der syntaktische Konstruktionen, die auf Antonympaaren basieren, ermittelt werden. Ebenfalls auf der Ebene der Wortbildung sollten ins Wörterbuch nicht nur die automatisierten, formalen Regularitäten auf der Systemebene eingehen: Diese sollten durch authentische Kontrastpaare ergänzt werden. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96977 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z