Abstract
In the article, based on the material of the Czech National Corpus, namely corpora series “SYN version 8” (4.5 billion tokens large), the functioning of the remnants of the old Czech supine in the modern Czech discourse is considered. The forms of the old Czech supine, as is commonly believed, were supplanted even before the Baroque era by infinitive forms. An analysis showed that supine as a grammatical category is absent in the modern Czech and that its only representation reveals in the combination of the verb jít ‘to go’ with the form spat ‘to sleep’, which differs from the form of the infinitive spát by the brevity of the vowel sound.
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