James Naughton, Karen Von Kunes

Czech (eBook, ePUB)

An Essential Grammar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Czech: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Czech. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Czech in short, readable sections. This new revised edition has been thoroughly updated with examples of current usage, additional morphological explanations and an historical overview of Czech as to why two levels - written and spoken Czech - exist till this day.

Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types, key features include:

• focus on the morphology and syntax of the language
• clear explanations of grammatical terms
• full use of authentic examples
• use of basic twenty-first-century English borrowings
• detailed contents list and index for easy access to information.

With an emphasis on the Czech that native speakers use today, Czech: An Essential Grammar will help students to read, speak and write the language with greater confidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000320251
• Artikelnr.: 68434392

Autorenporträt

James Naughton was Lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK. He was the author of Colloquial Czech and Colloquial Slovak, both published by Routledge. His published translations include Bohumil Hrabal's Cutting it Short, The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka and Miroslav Holub's The Jingle-bell Principle. He also contributed to the Traveller's Literary Companion to Eastern and Central Europe, and several anthologies.

Karen von Kunes is a Lecturer at Yale University, USA. She is the author of Czech Practical Dictionary: Czech-English/English-Czech and of Beyond the Imaginable: 240 Ways of Looking at Czech. She is the editor-in-chief and coauthor of Barron's TravelWise Czech, the translator of Jirí Voskovec and Jan Werich's play Svet za mrízemi in Laurence Senelick's volume Cabaret Performance and the author of introductions to translated novels. She has also published 'Annotated Bibliography on Czech and Slovak Literary Theory' in the series New Literary History: International Bibliography of Literary Theory and Interpretation and has contributed scholarly articles on Czech culture, film and literature in various periodicals. Her most recent publication is Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals, and in 2013 she published her novel Among the Sinners.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents - Obsah Abbreviations - Zkratky Chapter 1 Introduction to Czech - Úvod do
etiny Chapter 2 Pronunciation and Orthography - Výslovnost a pravopis Chapter 3 Nouns - Podstatná jména Chapter 4 Adjectives and Adverbs - P
ídavná jména a p
íslovce Chapter 5 Pronouns - Zájmena Chapter 6 Numerals and Quantifiers -
íslovky Chapter 7 Verbs - Slovesa Chapter 8 Cases and Prepositions - Pády a p
edloky Chapter 9 Syntax and Conjunctions - Syntax a spojky Chapter 10 Word Formation - Tvöení slov Index