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The aim of this paper is to propose coherent principles which enable showing the relation between derivation and composition on the graph of a derivational nest. The author proposes a system of arrows and dotted segments compatible with the current method of graph drawing. The arrows stand for the bases that contribute to the creation of compound words in the nest but are not a part of it (so called...
The article deals with the problem of classification of language functions. The author considers six parameters of verbal activity: world, man, interaction, discourse, convention and linguistic situation, which are treated as criteria of the language functions. He considers also two aspects of language functioning: explicate and procedural, which enables the distinction of twelve language functions:...
The term used in the title has not been so far the subject of a more extensive linguistic reflection. The author of the paper aims at providing a semantic-generative description of sentences containing the segment 'argumentowac' with respect to their structure and meaning. The discussion starts from a critical reflection on the current state of knowledge. Referring to results of studies, the author...
The aim of the article is to describe the derivational nest of preposition 'BEZ'. The analysis brings information about: the number of derivates on individual derivational strokes, the length of derivational chains, number and types of parts of speech, number, types and load of derivational models and derivational techniques. The authoress divides the derivates into 12 groups; the division results...
Literature concerning sound symbolism points out correlation (on sub-morphemic level) between opposition of front and back vowels and opposition of meaning of words that contain them. For example, front vowel phonemes are connected with small size of things or phenomena; back vowel phonemes - with huge size. The paper shows the correlation in Polish onomatopoeic interjections. The author compares...
The article discusses the communicative meaning of liturgical gestures during the Roman Catholic Mass. The gestures are considered and analyzed from two perspectives: the former is connected with theology and the latter with the non-verbal communication. The meaning and usage of the gestures are then interpreted by applying Goffman's dramaturgical theory of social life.
The paper presents frame semantics methodology (Fillmore, 1982) applied to semantic description of Polish verbs. Football related verbs were chosen as the research material and were selected from half million words corpus of football match comments. The description was based on the frame semantics methodology (Fillmore, Atkins 1992). As a result, 33 frame elements were distinguished and were used...
The paper discusses the 'Split Morphology Hypothesis' (Perlmutter 1988) and Booij's (1993, 1996) 'Against Split Hypothesis' proposal where inflectional processes feed derivation. In the former part, the authoress discusses criteria of a morphology division: a linear order of morphemes, size of sets of inflectional and derivational markers, a series formation and a degree of grammaticalization of both...
The authoress analysed those idioms from poems of J. B. Zaleski that contain at least one element connected with colour. The linguistic analysis of the text aimed to characterise the language of the poet and to compare idioms from XIX and XX century. Idioms provide information about stereotypes, also those connected with colours. Simile idioms (the term still discussed among linguists) vividly underline...
Fashionable words appear in every linguistic period. They are used much more often than necessary. This frequency cannot be rationally explained, it blurs meaning of the lexeme and makes the speakers unaware of others synonymic words. The author presents a set of today fashionable Polish words and analyses reasons of the phenomenon from the point of view of the culture of language.
Descriptive status is a new kind of communication. It does not have any counterparts in virtual space or in reality. It is interesting because it does not fit to any of communication levels described by D. McQuil and it is different from all known forms of interaction. The fact that the text appears in specific situation (half-private, between direct and indirect) forms its linguistic uniqueness:...
The article bases on the experiences of the author who collected his data during interviews in Wielkopolska region. He points out that low frequency of adjectives in dialectal texts forces the researcher to use other ways of collecting data (such as: excerption from dictionaries, atlases, source materials, so called method of contradictions, description, conversation). He also considers dictionary...
The paper offers an analysis of the semantic structure of the Polish verb 'miec' (to have) in its several different uses. The main aim is to shed some new light on the mechanisms and motivations underlying two basic modal uses of the verb: deontic and epistemic. The author employs the framework of Ronald W. Langacker's 'Cognitive Grammar', with a particular focus on the notion of subjectification,...
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