Abstract
Both an adverb with the suffix -e and an adverb with the suffix -o are derived from many adjectives in Czech. Adverbs with the latter suffix are often a component of the predicate.
The predicative syntactic function has become one of the main arguments to isolate the adverbs with the suffix -o as a separate part of speech (Komárek, 1954); nevertheless, this proposal has not been widely accepted. In the present paper, a detailed analysis of the adverbs with the suffix -o is carried out on the basis of material from the Czech National Corpus.
The analysis documents that solely a part of the adverbs with the suffix -o specializes in the predicative function, other adverbs with this suffix fulfill an adverbial function as well, or do not fulfill the predicative function at all. Besides the syntactic function and the lexical meaning of these adverbs, their relation to the base adjective and the impact of context is taken into consideration when discussing the representation of these adverbs within the deep