Habitual constructions in Slovak
Abstract
Abstract In this chapter we present two Slovak habitual expressions: the verbal suffix - va- and the auxiliary zvyknúť . Examples extracted from the Slovak National Corpus were tested for the scopal behaviour in terms of Functional Discourse Grammar. Although our conclusions mostly lean on modifier tests, tests with operators and of complementation confirm that the two habitual strategies may be associated with two different scopal layers. Examples of the cooccurrence of the strategies further confirm the scopal hierarchy.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Syntax
Semantics
Linguistic Variation
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Linguistics
Language Diversity
and Identity
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Typological studies in language
- Pages
- 309–338
- Publication date
- 6 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter