Clitic climbing and its constraints in Czech

This Thesis aims to describe some factors that may influence clitic climbing from an embed- ded infinitival clause, as shown in the example: "Dost možná, že sei jejj rozhodnei radikálně změnitj." (It is quite possible that he will decide to change it radically.) In this phrase, where the predicate is separated from the embedded infinitive by a manner adverb, the infinitival clitic jej climbs to the matrix clause. The research of this thesis focuses primarily on the presence of an adverbial - which modifies both the infinitive form and the infinitival clitic type. The theoretical part of this thesis presents a summary of previous research on: the position of clitics within both the matrix and the embedded clauses, and on the order of clitics inside the clitic cluster. It also summarizes: findings in the field of clitic climbing, possible reasons for its realization, and potential influencing factors. The empirical part of this thesis focuses on potential factors that may influence the reali- zation of clitic climbing when it's grammatically facultative. Based on the findings described in the theoretical part, data from the Czech National Corpus (CNC) are annotated. To conclude, tests are conducted to determine which factors have an influence on clitic climbing and under which circumstances. The...