Communicative function of the sentence and modality in Czech-German Contrastive Grammar by František Štícha Communicative function of the sentence and modality in Czech-German Contrastive Grammar by František Štícha
2017
Abstract
This grammaticographic study deals with the communicative function of sentences and modality from a Czech-German contrastive perspective. The object under scrutiny is František Štícha's Czech-German Contrastive Grammar (2nd edition, 2015), one of the milestones of Czech-German contrastive linguistic analysis.
The study focuses mainly on greeting formulas, modi, modal verbs, modal words and modal particles. It adresses the question as to how deficiences identified in the description of these phenomena in Czech-German Contrastive Grammar could be remedied.
Crucially, special attention is devoted to the user aspect.