Adjectival participles in Czech, German and Russian and their reciprocal equivalents based on a corpus research
Abstract
This paper deals with the analysis of adjectival participles based on the Czech-Russian-German subcorpora of the InterCorp ČNK version 7. Adjectival participles are a transitive phenomenon, which includes verbal and adjective features.
This causes some problems with their classification (as a verbal adjective in Czech, as a non-finite verbal form in Russian). This analysis is composed of 10 partial analyses (4 participles in Czech, 4 in Russian and 2 in German), each with 100 occurrences.
The results show certain equivalence across all three languages (e.g. present active participle in Czech, Russian and participle I in German). The analysis confirms the most frequent use of adjectival participles in Russian, but it also points to a relatively high occurrence of Czech participles among the equivalents.
German is characterised by a combination of incorporation and other grammatical devices.