Kobyletska L. Temporal and spatial relations in modern Czech phraseology

The thesis deals with the phraseological units (PhUs) rendering temporal and spatial relations. It gives insights into the reception of the philosophical concepts of “Time” and “Space” in their projection on the linguistic theory and analyses the phrase-semantic groups of “Time” and “Space” within the phrase-semantic field of “Existence”. The category of “time” reflects duration and succession of events. Hence the following temporal relations are singled out and analysed in terms of the conducted research: those characterizing the duration of the event (long/ brief), intensity of the course of event (fast/ slow), parts of the day and days of the week, those characterizing age stages of the human life cycle (birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, senility, and the end of human life), as well as those reflecting the sequence of events in the life course: the present, the past and the future. “Space” is considered to be an environment formed by the interrelation of things. The spatial relations traced in the thesis are as follows: distance (far away/ near), ubiquity (everywhere), and area (surrounding world, geography of inhabited settlements, locality) In the thesis, the phraseological unit is viewed as a multi-word unit of language, fixed in meaning, lexical composition and structure, reproducible in speech, and semantically indivisible.