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The opposition 'ptosis orthe (eutheia) - ptoseis plagiai', 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...
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.
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.
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 Old (eighth cent.) and Classical (ninth-twelfth cent.) Japanese verbal noun, in contemporary Japan called 'ku goho' was formed by means of a word-final suffix which can be presented in the general shape of -((u)r)aku / ke(1)ku. 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',...
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 authoress used the concept of Concession...
In the present paper the author analyses 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...
In the sixth volume of the Karaim journal 'Karaj Awazy' Aleksander Mardkowicz (1875-1944) prepared a six page long article containing reminiscences of the loft in 'kenesa' in Luck (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)...
Out of the two forms of genitive plural of the Ukrainian noun 'stattya' (article), namely 'stattej' and 'statej', 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,...
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