Contrastive analysis of a movement in French and Czech: movement in an enclosed space vs. boundary crossing

This thesis examines selected verbs of motion in French and their connections with locative prepositional phrases. Specifically, it focuses on French verbs that encode the manner of motion directly in the verb root (e.g., marcher), which, when combined with locative prepositions, usually express motion occurring within an enclosed space. The thesis also addresses cases in which such constructions indicate boundary crossing and therefore aims to analyze the factors that influence the resulting interpretation of the entire motion event. The analysis also includes Czech equivalents of French sentences, since Czech, as a typologically different language (Talmy, 2000), naturally encodes boundary crossing. The study examines the linguistic means by which the circumstances of a motion event are made explicit in Czech. The research is conducted on the parallel corpus InterCorp v13ud. Key words InterCorp, motion verbs, boundary crossing, motion in an enclosed space, manner of motion