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This article deals with a preliminary characterization of so-called 'agentive verbs of visual perception', with particular reference 'popatrzec' (look). The most basic structures with 'patrzec' are addressed, i.e. 'ktos patrzy na cos' (someone is looking at something) and 'ktos patrzy gdzies/w jakims kierunku' (someone is looking somewhere/in some direction). Grzesiak's (1983,1985) interpretation,...
This paper revisits the problem of the structural analysis of nominal structures with a quantifying element, including a numeral of the 'piec' (five)-type or a (vague) quantifier of the 'troche' (a little)-type in Polish. Owing to the complex internal and external patterns of case and agreement morphology found with such structures, the quantifying element is generally regarded either as a head which...
This article overviews the main themes in Russian studies on (especially epistemic) modality and presents selected recent research in this area. The approach to modality in Russian linguistics has gradually become subjective, encompassing all the attitudes and opinions of the speaker towards the utterance, its propositional content, as well as the addressee. Since 1990's modality has been analyzed...
This paper develops a syntactic classification of Polish synsyntagmatic elements (i.e. lexical items which cannot occur in syntactic structures by themselves, such as complementizers, relative pronouns, co-ordinators, etc.) based on their order in syntactic structures. The problem of the word order and related problems are discussed from the perspective of the methodology of descriptive grammar. The...
As opposed to other directions and/or schools, e.g. structuralism, functionalism or generative grammar, corpus linguistics (CL) has not created an original scientific paradigm. As a 'theory-free approach', it does not determine key notions of linguistics, such as language, communication, linguistic sign, etc. Epistemological assumptions of CL are limited to general postulates of descriptivism, inductive...
The authors offer a new interpretation of the Kalisz rota (court records nos. 979 and 980) of 1422, which differs from the interpretation provided by the editors of 'Roty wielkopolskie' (Wielkopolska court records), H. Kowalewicz and W. Kuraszkiewicz. A detailed and penetrating analysis into the language and legal aspects of the rota shows that the interpretation of H. Kowalewicz and W. Kuraszkiewicz...
In the opinion of the author, metalinguistics is a systematic reflection on linguistic theories and linguistic texts (regarded as manifestations of a particular linguistic theory or concept). Thus, the scope of metalinguistics differs from the scope of linguistic theories, linguistic methodology, and the history of linguistics. Metalinguistics finds its theoretical basis in the conception of multiplicity...
This paper investigates the relationships between determiners and adjectives from the perspective of X-bar syntax. The point of departure for the study is the approach to determiners analysed as dependents in the noun phrase put forward by K. Wegrzynek and I. Bobrowski. The multi-layered structure of the noun phrase proposed by K. Wegrzynek and I. Bobrowski is compared with the linear approach of...
The aim of this article is to characterise the syntactic and semantic properties of three reporting predicates: 'oglosic' (announce), obwiescic' (notify), and 'zawiadomic' (inform). The analysis comprises syntactic constructions in which the predicates are used to perform the speech act of reporting information.The article discusses two kinds of structure with 'oglosic': 'ktos oglosil komus cos/(to),...
The aim of this article is to show vacillation in using the variants of forms and derivatives of several rare and inflectionally irregular verbs with stems 'przasc' (spin) and 'bósc' (butt). It consists of three parts: two of them deal with the alternants of verbal stems in the passive participle (e.g. for 'chciec - chcian-y) and the impersonal finite form (chcian-o), the last with the imperative...
The aim of this article is to discuss some syntactic factors influencing the morphosyntactic (part of speech and morphological) annotation of a large corpus of Polish designed and constructed at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. In particular, we argue that, in order to design a maximally transparent system of morphosyntactic annotation, one should be aware of and take...
Proper names and (geographical and ethnic) proper nouns which appear in 'Rozmyslanie przemyskie' (The Przemysl Meditation), a medieval religious text, are mostly of Biblical origin and were borrowed into Polish from Latin manuscripts. This paper discusses the adaptation processes that such nouns undergo in Polish texts, their origins, frequency of use, as well as the principles of their interpretation...
This article illustrates how the results of contrastive computer analyses of learner corpora can help to enhance the teaching of English writing to Polish learners. The first two sections of the paper lay the foundations for the practical implementation. The author defines a corpus in opposition to opportunistic collections and archives of texts, and relates corpus linguistics to other fields using...
The aim of this article is to give a short review of the deminutive formations in medieval Latin. These formations are as important in the medieval language as in ancient and particularly so-called Late Latin. Attention is focused both on morphological peculiarities concerning the derivational rules in medieval Latin and on the semantic function of deminutives, which is analyzed here in the light...
The author presents the results of recent research carried out at the Department of Old Polish, of the Institute of Polish Laguage of the Polish Academy of Sciences, into the 14th and 15th century lexicons (letters A through C). Its results manifest an urgent need for a new edition of the 'Slownik staropolski' (Old Polish Dictionary). The lexical items collected by the author were not included in...
The authors present a project for the concordance of the Bible based on the available medieval Polish texts. The project is illustrated with Chapter 13 of the First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. E. Belcarzowa's long-term studies on the Old Polish glosses to 14th and 15th century Latin sermons manifest a need for collecting all the surviving translations of the Bible into Old Polish...
The authoress presents some critical remarks against the commonly-held view that Leopolita's Bible was translated by Leonard Niezabitowski, a Dominican. Included is a summary of an unpublished manuscript by Rev. S. B. Migdal, in which the author made a claim (but fell short of supporting it satisfactorily) that Leopolita's Bible was in fact translated by Stanislaw ze Lwowa, a Franciscan. The present...
This article offers an analysis of the Polish infinitive in sentences like 'Uznal za stosowne wyjechac' (He considered it appropriate to leave). The analysis is couched in the structural framework. Syntactic dependencies, including agreement patterns and subcategorization, are discussed and arguments are presented against treating expressions like 'uznac za stosowne' as idiomatic.
In early 1920's, based on an investigation into a large number of languages, Otto Behaghel formulated a law accounting for the ordering of elements in juxtapositions. When the elements that are linked are of the same level, a shorter one tends to precede a longer one (where length is usually measured in syllables). Behaghel observed further that this basic order can only be reversed for semantic reasons...
The Polish scientific astronomical terminology has never been the subject of a linguistic analysis. This article presents its origins and history. Astronomical vocabulary appeared already in Old Polish (e.g. 'niebo' (sky), 'slonce' (sun), 'ksiezyc' (moon), 'gwiazda' (star), etc.). Later it was introduced into prognoses and calendars, as well as astrological works. It figured prominently in publications...
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