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Abstract: This study records occurrences of nominal forms of adjectives in Old Czech and describes their changes in the history of the Czech language. The authors created a database of language material excerpted from old Czech texts (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries). This database is unprecedented as far as its breadth and completeness is concerned. On the basis of the excerpted material, the authors have described which adjectives had nominal forms in Old Czech, which of these nominal forms have been preserved in Modern Czech, and where the positions and syntactic functions of Old Czech nominal forms are documented. The study also explores how the phonetic composition of the morphological base and ability to create a nominal form are related. By comparing Old and Modern Czech, the decline of nominal forms of adjectives and the predominance of the composite (adjectival) forms have been confirmed. The study, among other findings, presents the discovery that there were nominal forms in both relational and qualitative adjectives in Old Czech, whereas in Modern Czech nominal forms can be found only in harddeclension qualitative adjectives (with the exception of the adjectives přítomen and prostovlas). |
