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Since Poland entered the European Union and some of the EU countries opened their markets to citizens of the new EU members, many Poles and other Eastern Europeans decided to emigrate, mainly in search of work. The paper reports on some facts and figures concerning the Polish community in Ireland after May 1, 2004, and it presents new initiatives promoting the Polish language and culture in the Irish...
The article discusses the origin and the evolution of the forms of compound numerals in the dialects of Podhale, Orava and Spisz. The author proves the existence of a strong German influence on the development of numerals in these dialects, and shows it on the example of traditional ways of counting sheep. The author also shows the influence of Slovak dialects on the dialects of the Polish highlands.
The subject of the description provided in the article is word formation activeness of the pronoun 'SAM' ( 'alone', '(by) oneself', 'only', 'mere' and 'very') in contemporary Polish. The analysis of the derivational nest of the pronoun 'SAM' constitutes a point of departure for the dissertation. The author proves that this pronoun has a minimum derivational potency, which has to be enhanced by connecting...
Beginning with the definition of 'confirmation' estabilished in Polish linguistics, the division of this lexical group proposed by Adam Dobaczewski and understanding of term 'phraseological indicator' as discribed by A. M. Lewicki this paper presents descriptive and numerical results of analyses of lexicographical description of 25 phraseological confirmations (such as 'a jak', 'nie ma sprawy', 'w...
The author described structure and history of 7 Old Polish names of people who participated in legal tussles, names based on Preslavic verb ' *per-ti', such as: 'pierca pierzca 1399', 'sapierz 1409', 'sporca 1449', 'odporca 1460', 'porca 1460', 'sapierca 1460', 'wsporca 1460'. The article continues the treatise that dealt with names of legal tussles and trials based on verb '*per-ti'. 'Sapierz' is...
In linguistics, the Gunning-Fog Index is a test designed to measure the readability of a sample of English text. The readability index is based on two criteria: a syntactic (the length of text sentences) and a semantic one (the number of polysyllabic words). The mathematical algorithm lets then establish the text difficulty to its potential reader. The resulting number is an indication of the number...
Nouns such as rain, star, rock, winter function as centres of poetic nominal constructions (PNC) in the old and contemporary Polish poetry. These constructions consist of nouns and adjectives (synchronically not motivated) and they do not appear in common language but only in rhyming pieces. Their analysis considers: their frequency, syntactic productivity of their compounds (polyproductive and monoproductive...
The problems of the semantic diffusion in linguistic communication are discussed in the second part of the article, namely on the levels of lexical, sentence and text semantics. The author considers the indefinite character of the metaphorical expressions and because of this introduces a notion 'parasemy'. Phenomenon, which R. Dirven qualified as 'the minimal specification view', was examined in two...
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