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Polish prepositions and analytic tendencies in Indo-European languagesAs analytic tendencies in Indo-European languages intensify, grammatical forms and lexemes become generalised. In the realm of prepositions, we observe not only semantical generalisation of a limited set of units (including at least de and à) but also their grammaticalization. Both these prepositions: 1. can perform grammatical...
Researching the manuscript of Wielkopolska Land Book: a transliteration problemThe paper discusses the fourteenth century use of minuscule in Polish and Latin records. The present analysis of the book’s excerpts shows that the use of majuscule letters is, generally speaking, determined by the individual writing style. One of the authors employed the letters at the beginning of proper names, but at...
The Czech Verb zdát se in Translation into Polish Language (Based on Studies Using the Parallel Corpus „InterCorp”)The article presents the possibilities of translating the Czech verb zdát se into the Polish language and introduces the parallel corpus (InterCorp) as a tool for searching equivalents. The analysis of the data from a parallel corpus shows a series of possibilities of understanding and...
Searching for masculinity in linguistic discourse. Ideas of Czech language created by the national movementThe article concerns itself with answering the question what was the relationship between the concept of masculinity and the Czech language included in the linguistic and literary production of the Czech national revival. Examining the ideas of the gender of language seems particularly justified...
The punctuation of the hymn-book Jesličky. Staré nové písničky by Fridrich BrideliusThe article is focused on analysis of the punctuation of the Early Modern Czech printed hymn-book Jesličky. Staré nové písničky (1658), which was collected by Fridrich Bridelius. The analysis is concerned both with the punctuation inventory in the hymn-book and with the rules that influence their distribution. The...
Instrumental of affirmation in selected Slavic languagesIn the present article I argue that apart from the genitive of negation, Slavic also makes use of the instrumental of affirmation – but its recognition requires a more sophisticated, function-oriented analytic model, firmly grounded in the real linguistic usage and sensitive to semantic conditioning – such as cognitive semantics. The discussion...
The symbolism of the noun baran (‘ram’) used to denominate people. The influence of religion on the development of the personified meaning of an appellativeThe paper describes the semantic changes of the meaning of the Polish appellative baran (ram) used to denote a person. The core meanings of the anthropomorphized noun in the sixteenth century were established on the basis of religious texts and...
Some problems of the dialectal vocabulary – the Polish folk names of dragonfliesThis paper deals with the Polish folk names of a dragonfly – an insect belonging to the order Odonata. Over 90 Polish dialectal names were gathered and analyzed here. The motivation of these names has been discussed in this paper. Moreover, the information about the geographical occurrence of these lexemes is given here...
On Adam Stanisław Krasiński’s forgotten Słownik synonimów polskich and its predecessorsThe paper consists of two parts. The first one covers characteristics of dictionaries (dated from XVIth to XIXth century), groups of synonyms regarding mainly the Latin (e.g. Gradus ad Parnassum), which also include equivalents of national languages (especially the Calagius three-language dictionary was examined...
Experimental corpus of the Lithuanian local dialect of Puńsk in Poland (a tool for the study on the Polish and Lithuanian local dialects in the Suwałki Region)The linguistic resources included in EkorpGP present a great cognitive value for Polish and Lithuanian dialectologists. Particularly valuable for researchers of the Lithuanian local dialects, including the local dialect of Puńsk, is subcorpus...
False equivalents in Belarusian-Polish linguisticsThe paper reviews false equivalents (in a broad sense of the term) in two Slavic languages: Polish and Belarusian. There are not many materials concerning Belarusian-Polish false equivalents, let alone a dictionary. Various types of Belarusian-Polish false equivalents are described and compared on the basis of examples taken from dictionaries and books...
Research interests and progression of Croatian phraseologyThe article examines the progression of phraseology research in Croatia. First researches started in the Nineteen Seventies. A. Menac, J. Matešić, Ž. Fink-Arsovski made the largest contribution to the Croatian phraseology as authors of phrasebooks and many dissertations. Nowadays studies are conducted by the members of Phraseology School of...
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