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The author demonstrates that the main function of the Polish infi nitive is still the function of the subjunctive mood as it was in the earlier periods of the Slavic linguistic history. It constitutes propositional arguments of the „real” and of the virtual voluntative predicates both in the fi eld of the epistemic and of the deontic modality.
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‘OSOBA’ – kategoria gramatyczna?

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The author states that the grammatical description of a language should be conceived in the frame of the theory: “meaning > form”. As an example to prove the adequacy of that statement she presents an outline of the semantic analysis of the grammatical category of person. The traditional grammar presents ‘person’ as an inflectional category of the verb, exponent of the formal congruency of the verbal predicate with its implied argument in the form of the nominative noun phrase. From the semantic point of view ‘person’ is the central category guaranteeing success full act of linguistic communication: it enables us to identify correctly active participants of the speech event, as also those active in the spoken of event.
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Prof. dr hab. Roman Laskowski (1936–2014)

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Zaimki – uniwersalny system referencji

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The author elaborates the thesis that pronouns, as a “pars orationis”, function as a universal system of reference in their respective linguistic code. She gives a short review of three pronominal subsystems in Polish from the point of view of their referential function: (a) definite pronouns, i.e. the basic means of referential identification; including personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns, (b) indefinite pronouns, and (c) relative-interrogative pronouns.
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The author of this article sees the so-called grammatical categories as semantic categories which transfer information of key-importance for a successful act of communication. This is the reason why this information is grammaticalized, i.e. it has regular and predictable formal markers. In the center of the author’s interest is the category of case in the Slavic languages, especially in Polish. She presents her concept of the semantic paradigm of the category of case and demonstrates a striking parallelism between the meanings of particular cases (= the quantums of information grammaticalized in the formal case paradigm) on the one hand and the meanings of the nominal mutational desubstantival derivatives on the other hand. In her view this parallelism confirms the assumption that impulses leading to grammaticalization are of a primarily semantic character.
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The author defends the thesis that language is an attribute of a nation and as such it is officially protected by the international legal system irrespective of the number of its speakers; thus, there is no such phenomenon as a “little language”. Linguistic minorities speak their mother languages or some dialectal variants of those languages.
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Starting with the assumption that the proposition (i.e. predicate > argument(s) structure) is the basic unit of the semantic structure of the text, the author argues that the relation > predicate > argument in its turn is the basic link in the process of the construction of the text. She distinguishes three types of predicates: (a) those which inform about the relations between the parts of the world around us and about the characteristics of these parts (cf. ‘stand’, ‘sleep’, ‘build’, ‘destroy’, ‘white’, ‘old’, ‘tall’, ‘man’, ‘animal’, ‘river’, sea’) and which accept arguments whose referents are parts of that world; (b) those which inform about our mental, emotional, volitional reactions to that world (cf. ‘think’, ‘know’, ‘like’, ‘wish’, ‘want’, ‘ask’, ‘command’) and which accept also arguments whose referents are events, states of affairs, processes, i.e. propositional arguments; (c) those which inform about the ways of our thinking and concluding about the events, states, processes happening around us (cf. ‘coexist’, ‘exclude’, ‘succeed’, ‘precede’, ‘overlap’, ‘cause’, ‘let’, ‘stipulate’, ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘before’, after’, because’, ‘if’) and which only accept propositional arguments. She concludes that however complex and/or context dependent a sentence is, it should be understood and interpreted as a hierarchically organized proposition.
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Przyimki – ich miejsce w opisie gramatycznym

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The author argues that prepositions are an integral part of nominal phrases, and their graphic treatment as autonomous words is purely a lexicographic convention. They have maintained their primary meaning which is localization of material objects and events in space and time, and they subsequently evolved to also express localization in the social world and in the mental world. In a grammatical description of a language they should be discussed together with the semantic and formal structure of nominal phrases.
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In the word class of conjunctions, the paper discerns: (a) exponents of associative predicates, i.e. predicates which connect/link events/propositions by way of a simple association, (b) exponents of temporal links between events, and (c) exponents of causal links between events. The author discusses certain special uses of Polish associative predicates formalized as conjunctions, and concludes that they are also characteristic of the corresponding class of predicates in other languages. She emphasizes their domination in the oral communication and comments on their ability to appear in the secondary function of quasi-particles.
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Uwagi o predykatach fazowych

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The author argues that the so-called "phase-predicates", such as to begin to..., to continue to... etc., from the semantic point of view, constitute integral parts of a predicative entity which should be treated as a periphrastic predicate.
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Co łączy obcego z obecnym?

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The author analyzes the semantic evolution of Polish adjectives obcy and obecny, deriving from the Common Slavic *o b ь t' ь. They are both shifters, which means that their reference is context dependent. She demonstrates that their lines of semantic evolution in Polish are unique in the Slavic linguistic world.
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I nadal w kręgu (para)zaimków

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Continuing the discussion about (para)pronouns the author presents her analysis of the Polish lexeme obecny 'present'. She also adds some comments to her earlier analysis of the lexeme wspólny 'common, shared'. She tries to formulate a working definition of the concept '(para)pronouns' and compares the possible extension of that concept with the class of shifters as defined by R. Jakobson, and with the concept of the "okkasionelle Ausdruck" as defined by Husserl.
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The author analyzes derivatives from the old Slavic root *seb-/*sob- and presents two different lines of the semantic derivation: (a) 'something that is distinct, peculiar' and (b) 'something that is / should be appropriated by the subject'. The central position in the first, older, set of derivatives belongs to the substantive osoba 'person'.
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Od tedy do wtedy

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The author presents the semantic and formal evolution of the Polish conjunction predicate tedy > wtedy. Being polysemic, tedy constitutes the Polish equivalent of the English then, French alors..., in other words: it evolves from being a signal of temporal reference to being the signal of an unexpected situation in need of an adequate, conclusive solution.
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The aim of this article is to point to the main processes that contributed to the linguistic evolution of the South-Eastern Slavic (i.e. Macedonian and Bulgarian language dialects as well as some of the dialects of the Southern Serbia) veering off the way in which the other, more conservative, of the Slavic dialectical complexes developed. In the case of the South-Eastern Slavic, the development has been to a considerable extent driven by the so called contact changes, i.e. by the interference between languages of different typological compositions in a multilingual administrative structures that impose on the individuals not fluent in their speakers’ language the need to communicate. In consequence, this type of development uncovers the right communicative hierarchy of the transferred information and leads to regularization (grammaticalization) of the exponents of the information that is the most crucial for the successful completion of a communication act. In a verbal system, the information is connected first and foremost with the semantic domain of assessing the truth-value of the discussed facts; in a nominal system, it is the information that enables the correct identification of the discussed events and their protagonists that counts the most. These issues are presented in the article from the perspective of the evolution mechanisms characteristic of the Macedonian language area, showing how the abovementioned semantic impulses transform the grammatical (morphological and syntactical) inheritance of Proto-Slavic. What draws our attention in this relation is the analogy between the direction and the final products of the evolution of the so called Balkan sprachbund and the processes that in the late Middle Ages brought about similar results in the development of the Romance languages of the Western Europe or of English.
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