Funkční generativní popis – rámec pro konzistentní popis gramatiky

Jarmila Panevová, Eva Hajicova, Václava Kettnerová, Veronika Kolářová, Markéta Lopatková, Marie Mikulová, Magda Ševčíková

Abstract:

In the present contribution, the main constitutive features of the Functional Generative Description
as proposed by Petr Sgall and his collaborators are introduced together with a brief characterization
of selected Czech grammatical phenomena within this framework. These phenomena
include above all verbal and nominal valency and related issues and topic-focus articulation, esp.
in relation to negation and presupposition. Criteria for the determination of valency members are
proposed together with the changes in the valency structure connected with the application of
different diatheses and alternations. The role of valency requirements in complex predicates is
described and exemplified by means of derived structures. The other phenomenon investigated
is connected with reflexive and reciprocal constructions. Furthermore, attention is devoted to
the categorization of deletions and the related phenomenon of the general participant, and also
to various comparative constructions that are described as constructions with surface deletions.
The constructions introduced by the Czech preposition kromě ‘besides/instead of’ are used as an
illustration of how their deep representation looks. The main tenets of FGD have been applied,
verified and further refined in the Prague Dependency Treebank family and valency lexicons, which
are briefly characterized here as well.