Grammatical Level Vzorová ustanovení

Grammatical Level. The grammatical part of the analysis analyses syntactic-morphological aspects appearing in the Treaties. This chapter is a practical application of chapter 2.3.2 from the theoretical part. Table 9 represents the number of sentences and an approximate number of words per sentences both in CZ and EN versions. Treaty of Paris EN Treaty of Paris CZ Maastricht Treaty EN Maastricht Treaty CZ Treaty of Lisbon EN Treaty of Lisbon CZ Sentences 85 156 23 25 34 37 Ø number of words/sentence 30 21 33 20 27 20 Table 9: Number of sentences in documents It is evident from table 9 that the higher average number of words per sentence have the EN versions. The EN versions have in average thirty words per sentence while the CZ versions have twenty. This distinction may be caused by the different grammatical structures of Czech and English sentences. The main difference between the structures of CZ and EN sentences is that the English language uses a definite the or indefinite a/an article before every noun in the singular (with some exceptions also in plural) form. The Czech language does not have this phenomenon. Another distinction which causes this difference is the preposition of, which is being expressed by the second case in CZ language (Hladký 1991, 50). The preposition of is also one of three most commonly used words in all analysed treaties. Example [4] demonstrates the comparison of this phenomena. [4] CZ: - upevňovat ochranu práv a zájmů státních příslušníků svých členských států zavedením občanství Unie (Maastrichtská smlouva 1992).