>ČASOPIS PRO MODERNÍ FILOLOGII 2026 (108) 2
Component Order in Adverbial Coordinative Binomials: A Contrastive Analysis of Italian and Czech
ABSTRACT (en)
This study examines adverbial coordinative binomials in contemporary Italian and Czech, focusing on factors that determine the ordering of their components. Binomials are defined as coordinated lexical pairs consisting of two elements of the same word class occurring on the same syntactic level. Drawing on data from web-based corpora, the article tests five restrictions discussed in the literature, namely individual frequency of components, metrical length, constructional openness, iconic (sequential) priority, and proximity preference. The analysis shows that no single factor explains the preferred ordering; instead, word order emerges from the interaction of multiple constraints whose relative weight differs across languages. In Italian, restrictions tend to converge, resulting in a high degree of lexicalization and fixed ordering. In Czech, by contrast, binomials display greater variability, reflecting a more open and less conventionalized structural pattern. Frequency and metrical length emerge as the most stable factors in both languages. The findings support an interaction-based, usage-oriented view of binomials at the interface of lexicon and syntax and highlight both language-specific tendencies and more general organizational principles.
KEYWORDS (en)
binomials, coordinative constructions, word order constraints, Italian–Czech contrastive analysis
KLÍČOVÁ SLOVA (cz)
binomiály, koordinační konstrukce, restrikce slovosledu, kontrastivní analýza italštiny a češtiny
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/23366591.2026.2.3
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CORPUSES
Benko, V.: Araneum Bohemicum Maius, verze 15.04. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Praha 2015. Dostupný z http://www.korpus.cz
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