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This article presents chosen formative phenomena which illustrate regional features of Stanislaw Moniuszko's language. His idiolect connected features of the general literature Polish and the Polish of developed stratum of north-east verges. The authoress has researched all 794 letters collected and published by the musicologist W. Rudzinski. The analysis of language material has demonstrated that...
The article is devoted to relation between concepts of degree and intensity. Degree as a semantic category implies operation of comparison, thus concept of degree refers also to the speaker and has to be considered on meta-linguistic level. Intensity is one of subcategories of degree and characterizes the difference between the feature of the object and norm, where norm refers to the meaning of the...
The purpose of this study is to examine the syntax and semantic features of verb 'slychac' in contemporary Polish language. The main object of analysis is 'gdzies slychac cos' which is a lexical unit of Polish. It is the basis unit founded (among others: 'gdzies slychac, jak _ '; 'gdzies slychac, ze _ '; 'slychac o czyms'; 'jak slychac _ ' and 'co slychac _?') by verb 'slychac'. In conclusion, the...
The presented article is an attempt to question the widespread opinion that the 21st century linguistics is on the methodological crossroads, losing its identity because of its multiparadigmacity and the interdisciplinary character of explanation of linguistic phenomena. Taking into account the obvious consideration that it is linguists themselves who will determine the future of the language studies,...
The article is dedicated to metalinguistic remarks on methods used in three chosen monographs describing very popular in modern human sciences and variously expressed relation: language versus sex and gender. The observations made by researchers show that various methods and ways of research used in analysed papers are adequate to describe sex and gender asymmetry in Polish. Authors, using such methods...
The article presents semantic features of six asyntagmatic contextual lexemes with 'nic' segment. Having the same syntactic features, the lexemes play different roles in sentences. Three of them, 'nic podobnego', 'nic nic' and 'to nic', mean that the given statement is either untrue or unimportant. Lexemes 'i nic' and 'a nic' describe undertaken actions as ineffective. 'No nic' is used to end of thought,...
The article puts forward a hypothesis stating that 'tolerancja' (a tolerance) is an ambiguous word. In order to prove the hypothesis the authoress refers to collocations of the noun 'tolerancja' by showing its etymology and changes in meaning. The article presents two main usages of the noun 'tolerancja' which are given by dictionaries of contemporary Polish. Apparently, each usage has a different...
The subject matter of this article is a proposal of analysing the functioning of the exponents of epistemic modality which is based on the concept of the guarantor. The guarantor constitutes a foundation on which to take responsibility for a opinion concerning a given state of affairs. The guarantor appears in opinions which match the reality to a varying degree. In the article a distinction between...
The object of description in the article are new names of personal agents, motivated by verbs and nouns. The formations have been excerpted from Volumes of 'Nowe slownictwo polskie. Materialy z prasy lat 1993-2000', vol. I: A-H, vol. II: I-O, vol. III: P-S, ed. T. Smólkowa, Kraków 2004-2005. The analysis of the material leds to determining a set of derivational formatives used for creating new agentive...
The article begins with remarks on the categorisation of well-known quotations from literary sources. The main part of the article presents descriptions of such quotations in six contemporary general-usage dictionaries (four of them are Polish, one of them is English and one of them is French) and proposes further descriptions for the new great Polish dictionary. Principles for selecting quotations...
The paper discusses the problem o the 'sequenced subject' occurring in Old-Polish language. The study shows the structure and syntax of the sequenced subject and emphasizes the main rules of verbs and nouns' syntax. The material analysed in this study allows to verify some of linguistic opinion on the sequenced subject in the Old-Polish language.
The author discusses the axiological system that emerged from the language used by concentration camp prisoners. He analyzes the archive materials. The author presents few semantic categories. He also takes the question of the 'reversed ethics' of Nazi concentration camp.
The aim of the article was to find out if applying profiling (in the Langacker's sense) into discourse analysis can help in identifying discourse borders. Text sample used in the analysis comes from debate on parental leave prolonging that took part in Polish parliament in 2006. All the cases when the term 'family' occured in the text were coded and then correspondence analysis of their co-occurence...
The article presents the generative description of the structures 'we wnetrzu' and 'w srodku'. The autor tries to answer, what surface relationship is between the words 'we wnetrzu', 'w srodku' and preposition 'w'. The autor also tries to prove, that the words 'we wnetrzu' and 'w srodku' are quasi separate lexical items.
The paper deals with a large group of Polish titles and professions names, like 'dyrektor' (director, manager) or 'redaktor' (editor), which can be used with reference to a male or female person. Depending on this they are of masculine (exact.: masculine-personal) or feminine gender. The author considers some proposals of their grammatical description on the basis of structural and generative grammar...
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