Studies in Polish Linguistics

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POLISH FRONT VOWELS OR BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY REDIVIVUS

E. Gussman

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 103-130

The paper reviews arguments pertaining to the phonological status of the Polish vowels (i) and ('crossed' i); it is concluded that none of the previously proposed interpretations does justice to the complex phonological behaviour of the vowels. The paradigmatic bias of the phonological tradition should be overcome in favour of a balance between the paradigmatic and the syntagmatic areas of the phonological...

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PATRIOTIC DISCOURSE VERSUS NATIONALIST DISCOURSE

M. Glowinski

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 97-102

The author discusses the crisis of the patriotic discourse pointing to the expansion of nationalist discourse in the present-day Poland. The fundamental distinctions between the two types of discourse have been discussed. The nationalist discourse defines a national community in ethnic ('blood ties') and religious ('Polish and Catholic') terms rather than in cultural terms. It appeals to frustrations...

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REMARKS ON QUOTATIVE 'SAYING'

A. Boguslawski

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 29-45

The author claims that two separae units of language should be distinguished in English (as well as, most probably, in other languages), which are based on morphological shape of 'say' (in case of English): first, the 'indirect discourse' 'say that____', and second, what he calls 'quotative' (or 'direct discourse') 'say: ______'. The former expresses a correlation between a chosen proposition (out...

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A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH IN TRANSLATION STUDIES - COMPARISON OF RHYTHMICAL PATTERNS IN POLISH AND RUSSIAN

A. Pawlowski

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 153-164

Quantitative measurement of affinity between originals and translations is one of the most difficult tasks of quantitative linguistics. Statistical methods are efficient in the description of measurable, formal features of text, e.g. lengths or frequencies of linguistic units, but fail to grasp their semantic content. Consequently, they allow for reliable comparisons of parallel test samples based...

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POLISH AND INIVERSAL GRAMMAR

A. Wierzbicka

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 9-28

In a recent book entitled 'Meaning and Universal Grammar - Theory and Empirical Findings' (Goddard and Wierzbicka eds. 2002), the authoress & colleagues have tried to identify the shared core of all languages on an empirical basis, that is, by studying a number of diverse languages and identifying what they share - both in their lexicon and their grammar. This shared core of all languages, established...

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SUCCESSION AND SEQUENCE. SEMANTIC RELATIONS

M. Grochowski

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 61-80

Sequence is an elementary semantic relation whose arguments are made up of two nonidentical referential states of affairs. Succession implies a sequence of many (at least three) states of affairs, and constitutes a conventional relation. Its simpler linguistic predecessor is the enumeration of elements forming an arithmetic sequential representation. The difference between the notions of succession...

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ON THE POLISH INSTRUMENTAL

G. Zeldowicz

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 81-95

A new theory of the instrumental is submitted. It is claimed that the meaning of the instrumental is construed pragmatically on the basis of the semantics of the relevant noun and that of the context, that the instrumental denotes something principally relevant for the given situation to be thought of, and that the instrumental involves the notion of causative relations, which in many contexts remains...

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IDENTITY AND NON-IDENTITY EFFECTS IN POLISH TRUNCATED AUGMENTATIVES

J. Szpyra-Kozlowska

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 131-151

The paper deals with the peculiar phonological properties of truncated augmentatives in Polish which display the effects of both underapplication and overapplication of phonological processes. As such, they resemble clipped forms found in other languages which are also characterized by irregular phonological behaviour. To account for the facts of Polish, an attempt is made to employ a subpart of Optimality...

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THE GENITIVE SUBJECT OF THE VERB byt'

E. V. Paducheva

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2004 > 1 > 47-59

Babby's 1980 monograph has created the concept that the genitive subject in a negative Russian sentence is characteristic of existential sentences and it expresses non-referentiality. The sentences with the verb byt' (as, e.g. 'Mena ne bylo v Moskve' 'I have not been in Moscow') are an obvious counter-example to this claim: they express location and they are referential. It was shown by the authoress...

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THE INFLECTIONAL ASPECT OF THE POLISH CATEGORY OF GENDER

Z. Zaron

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 111-122

On the basis of almost complete lexical material, the authoress constructs a pattern of the inflectional system of Polish nouns profiled by the category of gender. First of all, she determines gender classes of nouns separately for each the numbers: singular and plural (four classes for singular and five for plural). Then, she superimposes plural classes on classes determined for singular. This operation...

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VERBAL PREFIXES, GOAL PHRASES, AND THE DELIMITATION OF EVENTS: A STUDY OF THE ASPECTUALLY RESTRICTED AND UNRESTRICTED (PARTITIVE) GENITIVE IN POLISH

E. Willim

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 19-48

This paper addresses the role that the (non)-quantizedness ot the direct argument of a verbal predicate plays in the computation of the aspectual interpretation of a VP-predicate and the clause in Polish in comparison with English. Two classes ot verbs combining with bare mass or plural direct arguments in Polish are analysed here, distinuguished by whether genitive case morphology is disallowed on...

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SOUND PATTERN OF POLISH: PHONOTACTIC PARADOXES AT THE RIGHT EDGE OF WORDS

E. Cyran

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 61-89

The right edge of Polish words exhibits clear phonotactic patterns which have so far eluded a successful analysis. The main causes of the failure are identified as 'wrong focus and inadequate theory of word structure'. The former problem concerns the placement of overdue emphasis on the phenomenon of vowel - zero alternations rather than on the general sound patterns at the right edge, while the latter...

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THE PATH OF THE UNREAL AND THE PATH OF THE ABSURD: ON AN EPISTEMIC PREDICATE THAT WE DON'T REALLY MISS

A. Boguslawski

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 5-18

The author examines the question of what logical consequences the formula of an imaginary epistemic structure:Kpa v (~p / ~K~pa) would have (with K standing for the predicate 'know that' which is subject to the axiom Kpa -p); the structure is conceived of as proper to an intended predicate weaker than the predicate know that in ordinary language. A predicate constructed in the indicated way and obviously...

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CONSTRAINTS ON THE DERIVATION OF DOUBLE DIMINUTIVES IN POLISH AND UKRAINIAN

B. Szymanek, T. Derkach

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 91-110

One reason why diminutives, cross-linguistically, have attracted considerable attention in the recent morphological literature, is that they allow 'repeated application of the same rule on adjacent cycles' (Scalise 1986: 132). This property has been viewed as a characteristic trait of large areas of 'expressive' or 'evaluative' morphology in various languages (Stump 1993). From the theoretical viewpoint,...

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RUSSIAN 'CHTO BYLO, TO BYLO', POLISH 'CO BYLO, TO BYLO': ARE THE RULES OF PRAGMATICS LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC?

G. Zeldovich

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2005 > 2 > 49-59

It is shown that the actual interpretation of the Russian set phrase 'Chto bylo, to bylo' (what was, was) and its Polish literal equivalent 'Co bylo, to bylo', which seem to be quite different, is determined not by disparity of pragmatic rules operative in each language (as submitted by Bulygina and Shmelev) but by specificity of Polish concept of the world.

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THE EXPRESSION OF TEMPORAL 'STILL' IN RUSSIAN

A. Israeli

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2006 > 3 > 113-125

The article examines the semantics of quasi-synonymous expressions of the temporal 'still' in Russian, with particular attention to point of reference and expectations, as well as the length of the state or activity in question.

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THE SEMANTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC UNDERPINNINGS OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN COUNT AND MASS NOUNS IN POLISH

W. Willim

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2006 > 3 > 69-112

In Polish, the expression of the count/mass distinction in the nominal domain is tied mainly to number variability and the availability of the noun to occur in a counting construction directly with a (cardinal) numeral. This suggests that the linguistic category of number has an important role to play in encoding individuation in the nominal domain. In the analysis offered here, number is a morphosyntactic...

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ON THE MORPHOSYNTACTIC MARKING OF THE ADDRESSEE WITH THE POLISH VERBA DICENDI 'mówic' AND 'powiedziec': LEXICAL MEANING, SYNTACTIC MEANING, VARIATION

G. Hentschel, B. Chachulska

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2006 > 3 > 127-146

The paper deals with the morphosyntactic marking of the addressee in the context of the verbs 'mówic / powiedziec'. The verbs 'mówic / powiedziec' show two types of marking: dative and/or prepositional marking (do + Gen). As an introduction, the lexical-semantic structure of these verbs and its importance for the choice of the formal marker as described by Lazinski (1997) and Dabrowska's semantic...

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ASPECTS OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION IN POLISH

T. Menzel

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2006 > 3 > 147-161

Morphosyntactic variation is a central place where language change happens. Although some difficulties with the transposition of the concept of 'free variation' from phonology to grammar and lexis have to be taken into account, the distinction between structural variants and oppositions is useful in the domains of descriptive and diachronic linguistics. The paper concentrates on variants of morphosyntactic...

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PARTICLES, PARENTHETICALS, CONJUNCTIONS AND PREPOSITIONS AS EVIDENTIALITY MARKERS IN CONTEMPORARY POLISH (A FIRST EXPLORATORY STUDY)

B. Wiemer

Studies in Polish Linguistics > 2006 > 3 > 5-67

This article undertakes to delimit the domain of evidentiality by setting it apart from epistemic modality (while simultaneously showing systematic cross-cuts with it). For this purpose the author takes advantage of recent typological work that has been dealing with grammatical evidentiality markers. However, the main aim of this article consists in a first inventorization of lexical markers of reportive...

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GOVERNMENT PHONOLOGY (2)
'ARIMA' METHOD (1)
ABSURDITY (1)
ALTERNATIVE (1)
APRIORITY (1)
BITRANSITIVE VERBS (1)
CONCEPTUAL GRAMMAR (1)
CONCEPTUAL LEXICON (1)
CONSTITUENT HIERARCHY (1)
CONSTRAINTS ON WORDFORMATION (1)
CORRESPONDENCE THEORY (1)
COUNT/MASS DISTINCTION (1)
DATIVE CASE AND PREPOSITIONAL MARKING (1)
DOUBLE DIMINUTIVES (1)
EPISTEMIC MODALITY (1)
ETHNICITY (1)
FEAR OF ENEMY (1)
FILLING RELATIONS (1)
GENDER CLASSES OF NOUNS (1)
GENDER'S CATEGORY (1)
GENITIVE SUBJECT (1)
GRAMMATICAL AND NATURAL GENDER (1)
HARD CONSONANT STEMS (1)
INDIRECT SPEECH SAYING (1)
INFERENTIVE EVIDENTIALITY IN POLISH (1)
INFLECTIONAL SYSTEM OF POLISH NOUNS (1)
INSTRUMENTAL OF INSTRUMENT (1)
INSTRUMENTAL'S THEORY (1)
KNOWLEDGE (1)
LEXICAL MARKERS INVENTORIZATION (1)
LEXICAL SEMANTICS (1)
LEXICAL UNIT (1)
LINGUISTIC CATEGORY OF NUMBER (1)
METATEXTUAL FUNCTION (1)
MORPHOSYNTACTIC MARKING (1)
NATIONALIST DISCOURSE (1)
NATURAL SEMANTIC MATALANGUAGE (1)
NOTION OF CAUSATIVE RELATIONS (1)
OPTIMALITY THEORY (1)
PATRIOTIC DISCOURSE (1)
PERCEPTUAL COMPONENT (1)
PHONOLOGY -MORPHOLOGY INTERFACE (1)
POLISH CONCEPT OF WORLD (1)
POLISH MORPHOLOGY (1)
POLISH PHONOTACTICS (1)
POLISH TRUNCATED AUGMENTATIVES (1)
POLISH VOWELS (1)
PRAGMATICS (1)
PREDICATE-LEVEL PERFERCTIVITY (1)
PRONOMINALIZATION (1)
PROPOSITIONAL-LEVEL PERFECTIVITY (1)
QUOTATIVE SAYNG (1)
RUSSIAN BYT' (1)
SEMANTIC RELATIONS (1)
SEQUENTIAL STRUCTURE (1)
SOFT CONSONANT STEMS (1)
TAUTOLOGY (1)
TEMPORAL 'STILL' IN RUSSIAN (SEMANTICS) (1)
TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS (1)
TRANSLATOLOGY (1)
UKRAINIAN MORPHOLOGY (1)
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR (1)
VARIANTS OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC MARKERS (1)
VERBA DICENDI (MÓWIC/POWIEDZIEC) (1)
VOCALIC & CONSONANTAL ELEMENTS (1)
VOVEL - ZERO ALTERNATION (1)
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