ANAPHORIC CONNECTIVE DATABASE

Abstract

The paper introduces a lexical database covering anaphoric discourse connectives. The database contains 80 most frequently used connective units consisting of (in their current use or historically) a preposition and an anaphoric element, cf. the connective thereafter containing a preposition after and an anaphoric part there. The database has two parts. The first part includes German anaphoric connectives and their most common equivalents in Czech and English. The second one consists of Czech anaphoric connectives and their counterparts in German and English. The involvement of German, Czech and English enables the use of the database in foreign language teaching with a focus on deepening the productive language skills of students. In addition, the database can be used by translators as well as in the machine translation area.