Towards a construction grammar account of the distributive PO in Polish

• Authors: Adam Przepiórkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Towards a construction grammar account of the distributive PO in PolishPolish distributive constructions involving the form po are well known for their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasy. The aim of this paper is to show that, contrary to the received wisdom, two different lexemes po take part in such constructions: a preposition and an adnumeral operator. This explains some of the idiosyncratic behaviour, namely, the apparent ability of po to combine with different grammatical cases. A preliminary Construction Grammar analysis is proposed which eschews the potential problem of missed generalisations that such a dual account of po might engender.

Keywords

EN

Distributive po; adnumeral operator; Sign-Based Construction Grammar; Polish

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 10

Dates

published

2010

online

2015-11-24

Contributors

author

Adam Przepiórkowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/cs.2010.010