Syntactic Structures in Czech Multiword Units: Types and Tokens in the Totalitarian Era and Today

Abstract

We compare six selected types of syntactic structures in the Czech multiword units (MWUs) of the language of communist totalitarian journalism, represented by the Frap Totalita corpus, to the same types of structures in the MWUs of the post-totalitarian journalistic language, represented by the Frap SYNv13-PUB corpus. Attention is also paid to their lexical content. For some structures there are relatively large frequency differences in usage, while in others they are (considerably) minor. In terms of the MWU lexical setting, the languages represented by the corpora differ substantially.