From Sound to Meaning in Context

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Preface
• Piotr Ruszkiewicz’s selected publications.
• Tabula gratulatoria
• Abbreviations
• The Relationship between Phonology and Phonetics: Eugeniusz Cyran
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sound system, phonology and phonetics
• 2.1. Phonology
• 2.2. Phonetics and phonetic interpretation
• 3. Sandhi voice assimilation in Cracow-Poznań Polish
• 4. Some consequences of Laryngeal Relativism
• References
• Consonants at Domain Edges: Government-based Considerations of the Selected Phenomena in Slavic Languages: Anna Bloch-Rozmej
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Syllable structure and melodic representation in Government Phonology
• 3. Syllable structure in Slavic languages
• 4. A government-based analysis
• 5. The laryngeal specification of consonants in Slavic languages
• 5.1. Voice oppositions: Basic facts and the GP interpretation
• 5.1.1 The word-medial context
• 5.1.2 The right edge of the word
• 5.2. A government-based account of neutralization
• 6. Conclusion
• References
• Vocalic Double Agents in the Phonological System of South Welsh: Anita Buczek-Zawiła
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Data
• 3. Double agent 1: [ i ]
• 4. Double Agent 2: [a]
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Why Not Strict CV? A Few Critical Remarks on CV Approach to Stress and Rhythm: Tomasz Ciszewski
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Empty nuclei and the ‘visibility’ for stress
• 3. Strict CV and stress: Polish and English
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• Morphological Cues to English Word Stress Acquisition by Polish Learners: Andrzej Porzuczek
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Word stress in English
• 3. Word stress acquisition
• 4. The objectives of the present study
• 5. Stimuli
• 6. Participants and procedure
• 7. Data analysis
• 8. Results
• 9. Discussion
• 10. Conclusion
• References
• Polish Singulative Derivation in a Cross-linguistic Perspective: Bogdan Szymanek
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Singulatives: definition and characteristics
• 3. Polish singulatives as a semantic extension of the diminutive
• 4. The condition on singulative derivation
• 5. Some Slavic parallels and contrasts
• 6. The suffix -in: another singulative marker?
• 7. Analogy between singulative nouns and semelfactive verbs: suffix -ną-
• 8. Conclusion
• Sources
• References
• Klik, Klikać, Klikalność: Morphological Adaptation vs. Derivation of Loanwords: Alicja Witalisz
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Approaches to the ‘morphological adaptation’ of loanwords
• 3. Problematic issues
• 4. Stages and mechanisms of loanword morphological assimilation
• 4.1. Morphological adaptation of loanwords
• 4.1.1. Suffix attachment
• 4.1.2. Suffix replacement
• 4.1.3. Suffix/free morpheme deletion
• 4.2. Inflection of loanwords
• 4.3. Word-formation of loanwords
• 4.3.1. Derivation (affixation)
• 4.3.2. Compounding
• 4.3.3. Clipping
• 5. Conclusions
• Sources
• References
• Blends, Acronyms, and Nonce Words: A Cognitive Grammar Account: Henryk Kardela
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Grammar as a context-determined continuum of linguistic units
• 3. Blends in cognitive grammar
• 4. Acronyms and nonce formations
• 5. The Current Discourse Space and the analyzability potential scale
• 6. Conclusion
• Sources
• References
• How Was the Woman Created? English Man – Woman and Polish Mężczyzna – Kobieta in the Biblical Story of the Creation – A Cognitive Study of Word-formation as Image Creation: Agnieszka Gicala
• Sources
• References
• The Morphological Structure of Colour Terms and the Evolution of the Colour Lexicon in Polish: Danuta Stanulewicz
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Basic and non-basic colour terms
• 2.1. Berlin and Kay’s (1969) study 74
• 2.2. Modifications of Berlin and Kay’s 1969 study
• 3. Polish basic and non-basic colour terms
• 4. Selected morphological features of Polish colour terms 76
• 4.1. Colour adjectives
• 4.2. Colour adverbs
• 4.3. Colour nouns
• 4.4. Colour verbs
• 4.5. Other derivatives
• 5. Morphological classification of Polish colour adjectives
• 6. The evolution of the Polish colour lexicon
• 7. Conclusions
• Sources
• References
• Interactions of Word-formation, Syntax and Context. The Case of the Polish Denominal Adjective Aksjologiczy/a/e ‘Axiological’: Michał Post
• 1. Goal and scope
• 2. Syntactic contexts of the noun aksjologia ‘axiology’ and the adjective aksjologiczny/a/e ‘axiological’ derived from it
• I. Noun aksjologia ‘axiology’ in the function of Head
• II. The adjective aksjologiczny/a/e ‘axiological’ in the function of Modifier
• 3. Functional-semantic interpretation of the phrases aksjologia lingwistyczna ‘linguistic axiology’ and lingwistyka aksjologiczna ‘axiological linguistics’
• 4. The evolution of the views on the relationship between linguistics and philosophical axiology
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Early Modern English Non-pronominal Self-compounds: A Few Questions
• 1. Compound or phrase?
• 2. Impossible compounds?
• 3. Self an anaphor?
• Sources
• On the Origin of Evil and Its Competition with Bad in Middle English
• 0. Aims and scope
• 1. OE yfel
• 2. ME bad
• 3. Good and evil vs. good and bad in prose
• 3.1 North
• 3.2 South Eastern
• 3.3 West Midland
• 4. Good and evil vs. good and bad in poetry
• 4.1 East Midland
• 4.2 West Midland and Southwest
• 5. Conclusions
• Sources
• References
• The Constructionalization of Because in Late Middle English
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Causal conjunctions in Old English and Early Middle English
• 2.1 Old English causal conjunction forðon (ðe)
• 2.2 Middle English for (þat)
• 3. The etymology of because
• 3.1 Prepositional phrases with the noun cause in Anglo-Norman
• 3.2 Anglo-Norman and Middle English bilingualism
• 4. The stages of grammaticalization of because in English
• 4.1 Preposition
• 4.2 Conjunction
• 5. The competition between because and forcause
• 5.1 Preposition for (the) cause of
• 5.2 Conjunction for (the) cause (that)
• 6. Conclusion: constructionalization of because
• Sources
• References
• On the Evolution of Prepositional Subordinators Expressing Negative Purpose in English: The Case of Enaunter
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Grammaticalisation of enaunter
• 3. Discussion
• 4. Conclusion
• Sources
• References
• The English Do-support and the Multiple Spell-out
• 1. Introductory remarks
• 2. Introducing do-support
• 3. Phase and multiple Spell-out
• 4. Verb movement
• 5. The role of do-support in the derivation
• 6. Conclusions
• References
• A Landscape with the Translator Figure
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Temporal investigations into translation
• 3. Strategic analysis of Górnicki’s translation metatexts
• 1) Category of analysis: Cultural awareness
• 2)Category of analysis: Cultural distance
• 3) Category of analysis: ST – TT relation
• 4) Category of analysis: Concrete for abstract
• 5) Category of analysis: Censorship and moral judgement
• 6) Category of analysis: Understanding another point of view
• 7) Category of analysis: The strategy of polonisation
• 8) Category of analysis: Language enrichment
• 9) Category of analysis: Translation loss/gap
• 4. “The Translator – the key figure of the twenty-first century”
• 5. Conclusion – drawing the socio-psychological landscape of translation
• Sources
• References