https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/issue/feed 2026-08-04T13:02:57+02:00 Linguistica Brunensia lb@phil.muni.cz Open Journal Systems https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42546 2025-12-17T12:56:35+01:00 Pavel Kosek email@journals.phil.muni.cz Pavel Krejčí email@journals.phil.muni.cz Ondřej Šefčík email@journals.phil.muni.cz Marcin Wągiel email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/44898 2026-08-04T13:02:57+02:00 Marie Urbánková email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This paper deals with Czech adjectives expressing emotions or psychological states. It explores the means through which these adjectives express the stimulating or experiencing functions. Initially, the paper investigates deverbal psychological adjectives. These adjectives are ambiguous and can express either the stimulus or the experiencer arguments in the external position. The article investigates a correlation (if any) between the reading of the adjective and the derivational suffixes -ný, -cí and -vý. Subsequently, the paper focuses on alternating adjectives that have ambiguous roots and examines the extent to which their derivational suffixes are interconnected with semantic roles. It thus sets up the opposition between deverbal psychological adjectives that express the stimulating or experiencing function in different forms, and adjectives that have only one form but, based on context, allow a dual reading.

2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42544 2025-12-17T10:30:09+01:00 Radim Lacina email@journals.phil.muni.cz E. Matthew Husband email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This paper examines the interaction of grammatical gender and focus in speakers' linguistic competence and processing. We adopt the theory that analyses focus as the inducement of alternative meanings. Based on previous research on Romanian, we tested whether gender restricts focus alternatives through gender-marked numerals in Czech. However, the results of our acceptability judgement experiment found no effects of gender. We raised the possibility that the effects of gender were located in the processing of focus instead. We conducted a speeded acceptability judgment experiment, which found effects of gender but in the opposite direction; gender matched items were less acceptable. Finally, we conducted a probe recognition experiment to examine the representation of focus alternatives in the mind of comprehenders. The results revealed no effects of gender. Overall, the research reported in this paper make us decrease our credence in the hypothesis that gender interacts with focus alternatives.

2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42232 2025-12-08T09:48:23+01:00 Denisa Spurná email@journals.phil.muni.cz

This paper presents a multidimensional analysis of Romance loanwords (gairaigo) in the Japanese lexicon, focusing on their historical stratification and the mechanisms of phonological adaptation. The study addresses a gap in existing scholarship by integrating early borrowings from the Nanban period (Portuguese and Spanish, 16th–17th centuries) with later influxes from French and Italian, thereby identifying shared principles of formal integration across distinct historical layers. A stratified corpus of 200 lexical types was compiled for a type-based quantitative analysis, designed to maximize phonological diversity and to enable systematic comparison of adaptation strategies across periods and source languages. Quantitative mapping of lexical types across semantic domains reveals a strong concentration of French and Italian borrowings in gastronomy, music, and art, contrasting with the historical predominance of Portuguese in religion and material culture. The phonological analysis examines recurrent repair strategies imposed by Japanese moraic phonotactics, including vowel epenthesis, consonant gemination, liquid neutralization, and vowel lengthening. The results demonstrate that while the Japanese moraic CV structure functions as a stable filter across all periods, later strata exhibit a tendency toward more transparent and systematic phonological mapping, reflecting increased exposure to European source languages. By integrating historical stratification, semantic cartography, and type-based phonological analysis, this study provides a comprehensive overview of Romance influence on Japanese and contributes to broader theories of language contact in moraic language environments.

2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/37850 2024-05-09T13:54:24+02:00 Harald Bichlmeier email@journals.phil.muni.cz

In the newer Indo-European linguistics literature, several times the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) adjective sęštь 'klug, weise', respectively sęštъ 'sensible, wise', is mentioned. It is usually reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *sent-i̯ o- and said to be related to Latin sentīre 'to think, to feel, to mean' etc. On the other hand, there are several publications, where one might expect to find that word, but does not find it. In (etymological) dictionaries of OCS the word is also missing. The aim of the paper is to elucidate where and when the ghost-word OCS sęštь/sęštъ came into being by checking the relevant literature. The method, thus, consists in the traditional way of checking the relevant literature for the occurrence of the incriminated word. It becomes clear that the ghost-word arose by a misreading. It seemingly appears as a hapax legomenon in the Codex Suprasliensis (early 11th century). Instead of the really attested OCS sǫštęję 'being' (part.pres.gen.sg.f) Miklosich gives sęštęję 'prudens' in his first (1845) edition of the respective homily and in the first full edition of the Codex Suprasliensis (1851), because the original Greek text has the adjective φρονίμου 'wise' (gen.sg.m). After 1851, Miklosich repeats the ghost-word in about half a dozen grammars and dictionaries, from where it was taken over into the Indo-European linguistics literature and survived into the 21st century.

2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © 2026 Harald Bichlmeier https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42543 2025-12-17T10:12:19+01:00 Bohumil Vykypěl email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40127 2025-01-26T12:55:25+01:00 Bohumil Vykypěl email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40126 2025-01-26T12:54:02+01:00 Bohumil Vykypěl email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40125 2025-01-26T12:52:13+01:00 Bohumil Vykypěl email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright © https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40360 2025-02-21T13:32:12+01:00 Vít Boček email@journals.phil.muni.cz 2026-07-30T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright ©