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Balkan derivatives with the borrowed Turkish suffix -çi / -ci In the paper we reflect on which of the allomorphs of a suffix should be considered its basic form (and on what grounds). This problem requires morphonological analysis. We will illustrate this with the example of Balkan derivatives with the borrowed Turkish suffix -çi / -ci. This agentive suffix is extremely productive in Turkish so it...
When new is (un)forgotten old – Slavica Lodziensia (Slavica Lodziensia, a journal edited by Anetta Buras-Marciniak. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017, 175 pp.) A review of the first issue of the new Slavic journal, which follows the tradition of the previously issued yearly Południowosłowiańskie Zeszyty Naukowe. The contents include texts on the languages, cultures and literatures of...
Slavic visions of the modernitas idea A review of the new collective volume Fabryka Słowian. Modernizacje [Slavic Factory. Modernizations], ed. Danuta Sosnowska, Warszawa: Wydział Polonistyki UW, 2017, 407 pp., which is the first part of the research project envisaged for a four-volume series. The publication consists of an introduction written by the editor, the record of a discussion on the leading...
An der schönen blauen Donau… Depictions of the Novi Sad massacre in contemporary Serbian literatureThe tragic events in Novi Sad in January 1942 constitute an important subject in the prose of Aleksandar Tišma (Knjiga o Blamu [The Book of Blam]), Erih Koš (Novosadski pokolj [Novi Sad Massacre]), and Danilo Kiš (Psalm 44 and Peščanik [Hourglass]). Jewish-Serbian writers were not left disinterested...
Some remarks on the formalization of the propositional argument pCaus in sentences with prepositional causative predicative expressions in Bulgarian The paper focuses on the means of expressing propositional arguments in sentences with prepositional causative predicative expressions. Special attention is devoted to the causal argument (pCaus) and the processes of syntactic condensation and decondensation...
Expressing intensity in Serbian and Macedonian The article presents the way of expressing intensity in Serbian and Macedonian. The analysis of derivatives was made using the semantic word-formation methodology. It was initially assumed that the close relationship of the languages manifests itself in word-formation. The analysis of derivatives in this category shows a large similarity, such as the...
Robert Elsie – obituary (*29 June 1950 – †2 October 2017) This obituary outlines the professional career and work of Robert Elsie, an outstanding specialist in Albanian studies. Robert Elsie – wspomnienie pośmiertne (*29 czerwca 1950 – †2 października 2017)Tekst wspomnienia przedstawia drogę naukową i dorobek wybitnego albanologa Roberta Elsiego.
Category formants – their place in (semantic and formal) language structure The author argues that the so-called category some of the grammaticalized segments of the corresponding semantic fields that are especially important for successful linguistic communication. She presents semantic categorical paradigms in Polish and in Macedonian, along with their formal correlates, i.e., categorical markers...
A bibliography of works by Robert Elsie. (Scientific papers, translations, studies, presentations) The paper gives a list of selected publications of Robert Elsie. Bibliografia prac Roberta Elsie. (Teksty naukowe. Tłumaczenia. Opracowania. Wystąpienia)Artykuł stanowi listę wybranych publikacji Roberta Elsie.
Word formation in 17th century Gheg AlbanianThe article constitutes a word formation analysis of the Gheg dialect Albanian texts from the 17th century. The only Albanian texts of this period preserved to this day come from northern Albania and form the basis of the so-called old Albanian literature. All their authors came from northern Albania and used a similar variation of the Gheg dialect. The...
The Slavic ‘da’ and its Balkan peculiarities The aim of this article is the analysis of the Slavic ‘da’, its derivates and distribution, from Proto-Slavic to modern Slavic languages, with particular emphasis on the Serbo-Croatian diasystem. The main assumption made by the author is the optativity of the South Slavic ‘da’, which constitutes a so-called syntactic Balkanism. The present study offers...
On translations of the Greek σκήνωμα, σκηνή etc. Reflected in CS redactions of the Book of Psalms The paper discusses the Slavonic equivalents of the Greek words skēnōma, skēnē and also katoikētērion, katoikia and paroikia in selected (O)CS versions of the Psalter. A comparative semantic (contextual) and quantitative analysis of the use of the considered vocabulary is carried out. Resemblances and...
The Slovenes and Central Europe In the 1980s, a few years before Slovenia became an independent country, many intellectuals – including writers, politicians, sociologists and historians – were trying to answer the question about the cultural area in Europe to which Slovenia belonged. Most of them identified themselves with the concept of Central Europe, which was a reference to the Austro-Hungarian...
Stem morphophonology in Romanian paradigmatic derivatives: alternations and their functions Paradigmatic derivation is one of the basic word formation processes in Romanian. The aim of this paper is a characterization of its formal exponents. The work is founded on a previously realized analysis of the derivational stem in several thousands of cases of conversion and back-formation. In the analyzed...
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