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The aim of this paper is to argue for the need of using the feminine forms of the names of professions, titles and functions. The formative -ka is the most controversial one. It seems that the symbolic unit -ka as a linguistic form is not problematic, but our way of thinking is. It is argues that There are some “mental spaces” that make the use of feminine forms difficult.
The author of the paper aims at providing a disciplined description of lexical units containing the segment wynikać with respect to their structure and meaning. The method of analysis is based on putting forward hypotheses in the form of analytical implications and subjecting them to falsification by bringing them down to contradiction. The content of the paper focuses on issues relating to reconstruction...
The paper overviews the evolution of the views on Universal Grammar in Chomsky’s generative theory of language. Originally envisaged as a rich, complex, highly specific and unique system of rules, principles and constraints underlying the speaker’s ability to produce and understand an infinitude of novel sentences and later, also to acquire language on the basis of impoverished data, Universal Grammar...
The aim of this paper is to explain one of the most crucial difference, which appears in Polish textual studies. While some of the linguists (e.g. Anna Duszak) perceive text as a dynamic and processual phenomenon, others (e.g. Janina Labocha) underline its static and modular (grammatical) nature. This controversy can be explained by deriving contemporary differences from their historical origin, namely...
In contemporary dictionaries of Polish language almost all of metatextual expressions containing forms of the language elements to, ten, tak, taki, tyle (for example mało tego, poza tym, i tak dalej, w takim razie) are described separately, thus they are recognised as lexicographical objects. In the article particles belonging to the mentioned group are analyzed so that giving an answer to the question...
This paper deals with the issue of anaphora which has been defined and analysed on numerous occasions. The content of the paper is thus neither new nor original. Theoretically, anaphorising as such is not difficult. In practice, however, it turns out that making anaphoric references seems to be quite problematic to language users. The paper provides examples of unfortunate anaphoric constructions...
Textual tokens of forms such as tysiąc(e) (thousand(s)) have features of both numerals and nouns. These features result from criteria such as co-occurrence of numeral forms in compound names of numbers, the numeral being governed by the genitive, the numeral requiring the genitive form of the subordinate noun, form of the preceding adjective, form of the verbum finitum, government of the preposition...
The author discusses the lexical unit najeść się and its entries in Polish language dictionaries. In his opinion, the majority of the analyzed dictionaries give wrongly two meanings represented by this unit (a literal meaning: ‘to eat one’s fill’ and a figurative one: ‘to experience unpleasant feelings’), because the double rection of the verb in regard indicates two different predicates: 1. to eat...
This article dealts with the language of politics. The author shows the military lexis that is used in the contemporary political discourse It is claimed that this vocabulary is carrying the specific vision of the world that is it metaphorically presents the politics as the war, political activists as members of the army, that being a politician involves the implementation of war strategies. From...
The article surveys the major goals and topics of research in the Minimalist Program, as viewed from a wider perspective of Biolinguistics. It summarizes current views and opinions expressed by a range of scholars following a Chomskyan tradition in linguistics. It first finds the foundations of the biolinguistic approach in the rejection of the traditional mind-body dichotomy, which has led to the...
In the article the author analyses various variants of word order of sentence constructions containing relative clauses which occur in old Polish texts. These variants slightly differ from analogous contemporary variants of word order. In old Polish relative clauses with pronouns such as KTÓRY could precede their noun or correlative, which is unacceptable in modern Polish. Moreover, a relative pronoun...
This paper describes methodological issues related to the preparation and conducting experimental research in developmental psycholinguistics. The authors were inspired by a specific problem that arose at the time of works under COST IS0804 project on disordered language development of bilingual children. In spite of that, the authors did their best to discuss the issue as objectively as possible...
The article discusses problems which remain within the sphere of research focusing on the evolution of Polish language and its style in contemporary times. It provides an insight into the most characteristic changes encountered in the syntactic structures of journalistic texts throughout the 20th century. Among the most important syntactic parameters of such changes the author of the article lists...
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