Usage of Verbal Adjectives in Contemporary Czech

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe and summarize the most characteristic features of verbal adjectives. It is divided into two parts. The first part contains a theoretical description of verbal adjectives. It is based on information included in Czech grammar books, handbooks and research articles. It deals with the description of function, form, classification and use of verbal adjectives in contemporary Czech. This section also contains definitions of some controversial points or inaccuracies of these descriptions regarding verbal adjectives. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the research of selected features, it is focused on following types of verbal adjectives: -cí, -vší, -ný, -tý used in professional and journalistic style. The controversial points or inaccuracies of the descriptions defined in the first section of the thesis are examined on the material of The Czech National Corpus. It is focused on following features of verbal adjectives: the number and nature of the preserved syntactic arguments, word order position of the adjectives and their dominating noun, and the syntactic function of the adjectives