Linguistic Analysis of Selected Chapters From the Text "Kniha o powinnostech křesťanských"

This thesis deals with an analysis of a printed text from the early 17th century Kniha o povinnostech křesťanských. The goal of the thesis is to determine how much the text adheres to period usage through linguistic analysis, it also focuses on following rules established by grammar books from the period. The theoretical part of the thesis uses information from academic literature and period grammar books to create a picture of humanistic Czech. It also contains context for the period and author of the text, as well as the history and production of the print house the text was printed in. This part of the thesis analyzes how the print adheres to the standard of other prints from the print house. The analytical part applies the theory on the examined text, which has been transliterated and transcribed. The thesis examines different aspects of the text, specifically ortography, syntax, morphology and phonetics. The orthographic analysis focuses on the form of letters, possible allography, the differentiation between i-y and quantity of vowels. The syntactic analysis examines the ratio of simple and complex senteces, order of words in a sentence or the usage of specific clauses, specifically infinitive and transgressive clauses. Concerning morphology it focuses on the congruence of transgressives,...