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Whynessun / nessunoin Italian but *auque / aucunin French?The aim of the paper is to analyse the phenomenon of the allomorphism of the Italian indefinite pronounnessunand its lack in its French equivalentaucun.Whereas the former appears in the variant formsnessun / nessuno, the latter remains unchanged irrespective of the syntactic function it performs. Having analysed the phonological hypothesis,...
In the present paper I analyse propositions functioning in linguistics from the point of view of the criteria of truth imposed on the propositions within the so-called correspondence theory of truth, coherence theory of truth, and pragmatic theory of truth in its sociological version. There exists in linguistic circulation a certain group of propositions which on some assumptions are in agreement...
The opposition πτωσισ όρθή (ϵ ύθϵϊα) ι πτώσϵισ πλάγιαι, which with time began to express the contrast between the nominative and the oblique cases (casus rectus -casus obliqui) in the grammatical tradition, first appeared in the Greek reflection on language most probably in the circle of the Stoic doctrine, where it was used to determine the meanings of nouns perceived from the point of view of their...
The paper reviews the description of the pronunciation of Modern Icelandic as contained in Alexander J. Ellis' influential treatise on early English pronunciation. This description, first ever attempted in English, is shown to be remarkably accurate in recording phonetic detail even if the system of transcription devised by its author is, from today's perspective cumbersome and inefficient. The phonetic...
The article aims to contribute a genre-based description of the realisation of Concession in EU judicial discourse. The analysis has been carried out on a corpus of judgments issued by the EU court of last instance, i.e. the European Court of Justice with the intention to identify the patterns and markers of Concession in judicial argumentation.In the analysis the author used the concept of Concession...
Out of the two forms of genitive plural of the Ukrainian nounstaťťa‘article’, namelystattejandstatej, the former has been assumed to be purely Ukrainian, whereas the latter a Russified one. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the relationship is not necessarily as simple, moreover, that such an interpretation does not altogether answer the question of why only the form of genitive plural, and why...
Spanish etymological doublets - their origin and semantic development. Comments on selected itemsThe present paper is devoted to the analysis of five arbitrarily selected Spanish etymological doublets in terms of their origin, i.e. the appearance of their constitutional elements in the language: of the learned word (cultismo) and the popular word (palabra popular), and of the semantic changes that...
Prolegomena to the study of Ottoman Turkic and Turkic elements in the Amharic languageAlthough African territories constituted, for instance in the 19thc., nearly a half of the Ottoman empire, little attention has been paid to the Ottoman Turkic and other Turkic influences (e.g. the Mamluk-Kipchak ones) in that particular region, and if any, then rather their influence on the Arabic dialects and rarely...
The paper argues in favour of understanding a certain number of runic inscriptions carved on stones as culture-dependent instances of Scandinavian proto-books, for they fulfill precisely the same functions as contemporary books.
Turkish urban names exemplified by the town of EskişehirThe paper presents a selected lexical material concerning urbonyms of the city of Eskişehir in Turkey. Examples of names of all the districts (77), selected communication highways (941) as well as commercial and service centres (775) are analysed. The work uses the material collected in the course of the author's fieldwork and from cartographic...
The Old (eighth cent.) and Classical (ninth-twelfth cent.) Japanese verbal noun, in contemporary Japan calledku gohō, was formed by means of a word-final suffix which can be presented in the general shape of -((u)r)aku/ -ke1ku. Having a nominalising function, the morpheme transformed verbs and adjectives into action or state nouns of a wide spectrum of meanings: ‘doing something / being something’,...
Contrary to what the title of the paper implies, the author does not limit himself to the presentation of the current state of research on Phrygian, but also provides his own interpretations and evaluations in many places. The very extensive list of references attached will certainly prove to be useful to the reader interested in the subject analysed.
In the sixth volume of the Karaim journalKaraj AwazyAleksander Mardkowicz (1875-1944) prepared a six page long article containing reminiscences of the loft inkenesain Łuck (Mardkowicz 1933b) and a transcription of seven letters found there (Mardkowicz 1933a). Detailed comparison of five of those manuscripts with their transcriptions (we do not know what happened to the remaining two manuscripts) shows...
The aim of this article is to determine the basic genre conventions of electronic magazines, i.e. e-zines. The analysis illustrates the main characteristic features of e-zines, involving their function, format, content and functionality. The results of the analysis show that e-zines represent a group of heterogeneous forms, exploiting the conventions of other electronic genres, and thus creating hybrid...
This article - based on a larger study (Pawelec 2009) - has two aims. The more limited one is to present network models proposed by Ronald Langacker and George Lakoff. I try to show that both ventures rest on manifestly different assumptions, contrary to the widespread view that they are convergent or complementary. Langacker's declared aim is "descriptive adequacy": his model serves as...
The main goal of this paper is to show that the proposed relationship between Turkishkayık‘boat’ and Eskimoqayaq‘kayak’ is far-fetched. After a philological analysis of the available materials, it will be proven that the oldest attestation and recoverable stages of these words arekay-guk(11thc.) < Proto-Turkic*/kad-/ in*/kad-ï/ ‘fir tree’ and*/qan-yaq/ (see Greenlandic pl. formkainet, from 18thc...
The paper presents the history of the friendship between Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and his disciple Henryk Ułaszyn, a linguist and a professor in three Polish universities, which lasted almost from the time they first met in Cracow in 1898 until Baudouin's death. Baudouin not only became an academic guide to Ułaszyn, but was also the man who shaped his worldview and ethical principles. Baudouin, in...
The present paper concerns the status of the literary variety of the Czech language (the so calledspisovná čeština) with the system of the Czech language, with a particular focus on spoken language and literature. As a result of the constant eradication of Czech literary language (spisovná čeština) from the spoken language of Czech users, the process of its becoming stylistically marked has been noticeable...
The article presents a - to the best of the author's knowledge - new method of preparing data for quantification of loanword adaptation, together with two of its possible uses. The method is particularly fit for poorly investigated languages where a great deal of data, especially socio-linguistic, are missing. It is illustrated with the example of Russian loanwords in Dolgan. The result is an attempt...
Some Turkish verbs, besides their basic function, have an auxiliary function, forming compound verbs with nominal forms. This function is known not only in modern Turkish but also in Ottoman-Turkish. The purpose of this paper is to present the verbsetmek, olmak, eylemek, kılmakas examples of this function.The lexical material excerpted from Giovanni Molino's seventeenth-century Italian-Turkish Dictionary...
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