On the applicability of the relational-qualitative distinction to deverbal active adjectives in Polish

• Authors: Maria Bloch-Trojnar

Title variants

PL

Rozróżnienie na przymiotnik relacyjny i jakościowy w obrębie kategorii przymiotników odczasownikowych w języku polskim

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The term relational adjective is almost exclusively used with reference to denominal forms. The paper closely scrutinises the properties of the most productive type of deverbal adjectives with active semantics in Polish (i.e., adjectives with the suffix -ący), aiming to demonstrate that the key characteristics differentiating between relational and qualitative adjectives derived from nouns can be extended to adjectives derived from verbs. This conclusion is drawn on the basis of various semantic, morphological and distributional criteria. The uniform behaviour of denominal and deverbal adjectives calls for a theory of verb to adjective shift which takes into account the fact that resulting adjectives do not always show prototypical adjectival traits.

Keywords

EN

relational adjective; qualitative adjective; deverbal adjective

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 175-202
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Maria Bloch-Trojnar

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic