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Czech prosím and its Russian and Serbian Equivalents (Based on the Treq Database)

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.37816/2073‑9567‑2026‑79‑183‑199
  • УДК / UDC: 811.162.3, 811.161.1, 811.163.41
  • Publication Type: Research Article
  • For Citation:

    Polyakov, D.K. “Czech prosím and its Russian and Serbian Equivalents (Based on the Treq Database)” Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur, vol. 75, 2025, pp. 183–199. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37816/2073‑9567‑2026‑79‑183‑199 
  • Author 1: Dmitry K. Polyakov
  • Information about the Author 1:

    Dmitry K. Polyakov — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Central European Studies, Institute of Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Sq., 6, 125047 Moscow, Russia.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000‑0001‑5220‑2841

    E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
  • Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of Russian and Serbian communicative equiv‑ alents of the Czech prosím. This form of the 1st person sg. present tense of prosit ‘to ask’ undergoes the processes of delexicalization and decategorization in communication, i.e. it loses verbal semantics, is isolated from the paradigm of prosit and acquires the func‑ tions of a particle and an interjection. Since prosím is an extremely important polyfunc‑ tional discursive marker in the Czech language, the hierarchization of its equivalents in closely related languages has both didactic and scientific significance. The study was conducted using the Treq database (Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Charles University, Prague), developed on the basis of the InterCorp parallel text corpus. The use of corpus materials provides a representative sample and makes the study verifiable.
  • Keywords: Delexicalization, Decategorization, Conversion of Parts of Speech, Com‑ municative Equivalent, Translation Equivalent, Parallel Corpus.
  • Funding Sources: The study was supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 23‑18‑00260, Available at: https://rscf.ru/project/23‑18‑00260/.
  • Страницы / Pages: 183–199
  • Received: December 09, 2024
  • Approved after Reviewing: January 09, 2024
  • Publication Date: March 25, 2026

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