| 1. | Prosodic features (stress and rhythm) in code-switching by sequential bilinguals ** | This dissertation aims to explore the impact of code-switching from Slovak to English by sequential bilinguals on the accurate realization of selected prosodic features. By combining the quantitative method of corpus analysis, examining natural speech excerpts by sequential bilinguals, with the qualitative method of interviews, the dissertation aims not only to investigate the prosodic patterns used in code-switched speech but also to gain a deeper understanding of these patterns. |
| 2. | Aspects of emotionality in Euripides’ tragedies ** | The vocabulary of emotion in Euripides’ tragedies provides a suitable basis for linguistic research within a limited corpus. His works are characterized by a remarkable variety of plot structures, characters or use of chorus. The complex play of emotions obviously contributes to the dramatic effect. In the doctoral thesis, an attempt will be made to capture as many lexemes as possible from a wide range of emotions and to classify them. The lexemes will be analysed from the points of view of etymology, word-formation and semantics in the perspective of the development of their meaning and in comparison with their use by other authors. |
| 3. | Category of mirativity in Latin in diachronic and synchronic perspectives ** | In linguistics, mirativity, first defined by Scott DeLancey in 1997, is a grammatical category in a language, independent of evidentiality. The grammatical elements that encode the semantic category of mirativity are called miratives. Unlike evidentials, which capture the speaker's source of information, miratives convey the novelty of information, the sudden discovery of something, the surprise of the speaker or listener, the unpreparedness of the speaker's mind, or the speaker's counter-expectation. The range of mirative meanings can be expressed through a verbal affix, a complex predicate or a pronoun. The aim of the doctoral dissertation will be to trace the different ways of expressing mirativity in Latin by analysing selected Latin texts, which will be examined in both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. |
