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ASPECT AND PERFORMATIVITY IN SORBIAN

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WERNER E.

Slavia Occidentalis

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2018

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issue 75/1

143-149

EN

In all Upper and Lower Sorbian grammars, aspect is a grammatical category, regarded a typical “Slavic” traitin spite of the fact that since Bermel 1994, aspect can be safely said to have evolved separately in the individual Slavic languages. The character of aspect in Sorbian, especially in Upper Sorbian, is highly disputable (and has been disputed since the beginning of the 20th century (cf. Werner 2003). An exception to one of the rules of Slavic aspect (namely that something happening at the time of talking must be expressed by means of an imperfective verb) are the so-called perfomative verbs. This acceptance and the termAktverben go back to Koschmieder 1929 but have never been thoroughly verified for individual verbs in the Sorbian languages. In this paper, the author makes an attempt at shedding some light on the aspect usage of performative verbs in Upper Sorbian.

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Sobre los orígenes y las confusiones terminológicoconceptuales de los términos de "aspecto"y de "Aktionsart"

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Pawlak A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2008

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vol. 35

257-266

EN

The paper presents, on the one hand, various terms that assign the categories of aspect and Aktionsart and, on the other hand, emphasizes that the concepts regarding them are not homogeneous. The confusions are supposed to have originated in the past. Therefore, we'll sketch briefly the history of aspect and Aktionsart in order to show that the term and the concept of aspect should be related exclusively to the Slavonic languages.

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Le plus-que-parfait - expression d'antériorité et/ ou d'accompli? Essai d'analyse contrastive

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Wydro B.

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2010

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vol. 52

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issue 1

113-122

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Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations

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Bubenik V.

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2011

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vol. 53

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issue 2

7-23

EN

A survey of pertinent literature reveals that many studies of aspect in Semitic languages do not pay a due attention to the crucial theoretical distinction of perfect and perfectivity. In this paper I will adopt the ‘chronogenetic' model of the morphosyntactic development of tense and aspect tested for the Indo-European languages (Hewson & Bubenik 1997) that allows five major aspectual categories to be distinguished (prospective, inceptive, imperfective, perfective, perfect) within ‘Event Time’. I will argue that the appearance in Arabic of the analytic double-finite perfect (of the type kun-tu katab-tu ‘I had written’) was the most significant innovation during the New Stage not to be found in the other Central Semitic languages. During the Middle Stage in Mishnaic Hebrew and Middle Aramaic the canonical progressive aspect was paradigmatized while Classical Arabic created its double-finite counterpart (kān-a ya-ktub-u ‘he was writing’). The significance of this approach to the study of the universals of tense and aspect will be evaluated.

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Time and Space: The Language Clinch

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Starý Z.

Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics

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2020

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vol. 11

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issue Special Issue

48-70

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The fact that languages use the same means to express temporal as well as spatial distinctions might be a symptom of a deeper interconnectedness of Time and Space in language. The article focuses on aspect as a category that molds time into the language. Communicative acts with an imperfective verb can signal imperfectivity as well as perfectivity of the communication, and vice versa: communicative acts with a perfective verb can be interpreted not only perfectively, but imperfectively as well. Morphological aspect (i.e. aspect given by the morphological make-up of the verb) is thus to be distinguished from aspect as an aspectual construal of the communication (sentence). Factors which contribute to the constitution of the aspectual construal of the communication are located not only within the verb itself (its morphological make-up), but also outside of the verb, or even beyond the realm of language means. On the basis of the study of aspectual construals of communication, the notion of perfectivity is classified in regard to event/state flow into five types. The underlying principle of this classification is asymmetry (point(s) of asymmetry) instaured into the event/state flow. While in cases where Time and Space share means of expression, their relationship is metaphorical (one input domain is talked about in terms of the other), the Time–Space link in perfectives does not facilitate the communication of temporal meanings in terms of spatial ones. In this sense its “metaphoricity” is “deponent”. Perfectivity as a temporal category emerges directly from the asymmetry as a spatial concept: the temporal cogitandum is determined by the spatial cogitatum.

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Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese

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Kratochvílová D., Jindrová J.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2017

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vol. 27

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issue 1

38-56

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The article analyses Spanish and Portuguese verbal periphrases that express the beginning of a process (ingressive manner of action). It analyses stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked ingressive constructions in order to determine similarities and differences between the two languages. The study is primarily based on the comparable web corpora Aranea which makes it possible to see the frequency of use of Spanish and Portuguese periphrases in contemporary language, compare them and determine semantic restrictions for auxiliated verbs in each construction. As a result of this corpus analysis, it is possible to trace the main systemic correspondences between Spanish and Portuguese ingressive verbal periphrases and see the relationship between the original meaning of a concrete semi-auxiliary verb and the group of infinitives that can appear in a periphrasis introduced by that verb.

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Aspect indicators for deverbal nominals on different syntactic levels

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Heinold S.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2011

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vol. 47

683

EN

Recent literature on deverbal nominalisations has focused on the aspectual differences between nominal events expressed by the derivational morphology of the noun as well as the problems regarding their interpretation in natural language examples extracted from text corpora (Ehrich and Rapp 2000; Borer 2005; Spranger and Heid 2007; Alexiadou et al. 2009; Heinold 2010). It seems that the close syntactic environment of such event-NPs (like modifiers or embedding verbal constructions) are quite reliable as indicators for their aspectual properties. It is, however, uncertain in how far such contexts as well as the tense and aspect of the sentence interact with the aspectual information within the nominals themselves. This paper shortly introduces the lexical and morphological units in NPs and VPs which carry aspectual information. I present English, German and French data which show that in sentences where nominal and verbal event information interact different levels of aspect have to be kept apart in order to do justice to the subtle semantic differences of complex event situations.

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¿Es aspectual o temporal el carácter de la oposición imperfectivo /perfectivo?

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Pawlak A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2007

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vol. 34

101-106

FR

In this article, we present a short historical summary of the following terms: the aspect and the imperfective /perfective opposition to answer the question if the imperfective /perfective opposition has an aspectual or temporal character. We distinguish two types of the aforementioned opposition: the temporal imperfective /perfective opposition expressed by the Spanish tenses Pretérito Indefinido / Pretérito Imperfecto that is characterized by the property of [± temporal delimitation]; and the aspectual imperfective /perfective opposition recognizable in the aspectual system of the Slavonic languages that is characterized by the property of [± conclusion of the process].

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Teaching English tense and aspect with the help of cognitive grammar: An empirical study

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Bielak J., Pawlak M.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 3

365-400

EN

Form-focused instruction is usually based on traditional practical/pedagogical grammar descriptions of grammatical features. The comparison of such traditional accounts with cognitive grammar (CG) descriptions seems to favor CG as a basis of pedagogical rules. This is due to the insistence of CG on the meaningfulness of grammar and its detailed analyses of the meanings of particular grammatical features. The differences between traditional and CG rules/descriptions are exemplified by juxtaposing the two kinds of principles concerning the use of the present simple and present progressive to refer to situations happening or existing at speech time. The descriptions provided the bases for the instructional treatment in a quasi-experimental study exploring the effectiveness of using CG descriptions of the two tenses, and of their interplay with stative (imperfective) and dynamic (perfective) verbs, and comparing this effectiveness with the value of grammar teaching relying on traditional accounts found in standard pedagogical grammars. The study involved 50 participants divided into three groups, with one of them constituting the control group and the other two being experimental ones. One of the latter received treatment based on CG descriptions and the other on traditional accounts. CG-based instruction was found to be at least moderately effective in terms of fostering mostly explicit grammatical knowledge and its effectiveness turned out be comparable to that of teaching based on traditional descriptions.

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Teaching English tense and aspect with the help of cognitive grammar: An empirical study.

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Pawlak M., Bielak J.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 3

365-400

EN

Form-focused instruction is usually based on traditional practical/pedagogical grammar descriptions of grammatical features. The comparison of such traditional accounts with cognitive grammar (CG) descriptions seems to favor CG as a basis of pedagogical rules. This is due to the insistence of CG on the meaningfulness of grammar and its detailed analyses of the meanings of particular grammatical features. The differences between traditional and CG rules/descriptions are exemplified by juxtaposing the two kinds of principles concerning the use of the present simple and present progressive to refer to situations happening or existing at speech time. The descriptions provided the bases for the instructional treatment in a quasi-experimental study exploring the effectiveness of using CG descriptions of the two tenses, and of their interplay with stative (imperfective) and dynamic (perfective) verbs, and comparing this effectiveness with the value of grammar teaching relying on traditional accounts found in standard pedagogical grammars. The study involved 50 participants divided into three groups, with one of them constituting the control group and the other two being experimental ones. One of the latter received treatment based on CG descriptions and the other on traditional accounts. CG-based instruction was found to be at least moderately effective in terms of fostering mostly explicit grammatical knowledge and its effectiveness turned out be comparable to that of teaching based on traditional descriptions.

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L1 French learning of L2 Spanish past tenses: L1 transfer versus aspect and interface issues

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Pons J. A., Ahern A., Fuentes P. G.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2017

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vol. 7

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issue 3

489-515

EN

This paper examines the process of acquiring L2s that are closely related to the L1 through data on how adult French speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of past tenses in this L2. We consider the role of transfer and simplification in acquiring mental representations of the L2 grammar, specifically in the area of tense and aspect, and how learners deal with integrating grammatically encoded, lexical and discursive information, including mismatching feature combinations leading to particular inferential effects on interpretation. Data is presented on the Spanish past tenses (simple and compound past, pluperfect, imperfect and progressive forms) from two tasks, an oral production filmretell and a multiple-choice interpretation task, completed by learners at A2, B1, B2 and C1 CEFR levels (N = 20-24 per level). L1 influence is progressively attenuated as proficiency increases. Difficulties were not always due to negative L1 transfer, but related also to grammar-discourse interface issues when integrating linguistic and pragmatic information in the interpretation process. This has clear implications for the teaching of closely related languages: instruction should not only focus on crosslinguistic contrasts, but also prioritize uses requiring complex interface integration, which are harder to process.

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‘TAM’ in English constructions vs. Polish renditions – Selected transference pitfalls

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Chłopek D.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2017

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vol. 3

20-36

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This paper argues that a cognitive, constructional, view of the English categories of tense, aspect, and mood (‘TAM’) influences comprehension resulting in a more accurate grammatical performance by Polish users of English. Five English constructions considered to be transference pitfalls for Polish users are highlighted through juxtaposing original examples from The Hobbit by Tolkien (1937/1978) with three Polish renditions. The pitfalls addressed in this paper concern absence of equivalent Polish constructions to English expressions in the perfect aspect, the progressive aspect and to English constructions which ‘lexicalize’, i.e. convey with words, a compilation of the perfect and the progressive aspects. The Polish versions of the examples analysed and discussed in the present paper demonstrate a variety of means in which Polish grammar is used to handle the disparities between the English and Polish versions. The objective of the paper is to apply a cognitive interpretation to the aforementioned English constructions.

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Verbal prefixation and realizations of antipassive alternations in Polish

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Mroczyńska K.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2017

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vol. 3

169-186

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Various works on transitivity suggest that aspectual notions may constitute semantic determinants of argument realization. Observations included in these works prompted theories implying that argument realization may be aspectually driven. Following this line of thought, this article presents the results of corpus-based studies on antipassive structure in the Polish language and makes an attempt at confirming the fact that aspectual notion may determine argument realization. The article consists of three main sections. The first one focuses on notions of aspect and various aspectual propositions distinguished in the literature on the subject, regarding the Polish language in particular. The second section, illustrated with examples extracted from the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) and the corpus of Wielki Słownik Języka Polskiego (KWSJP), gives an overview of Polish perfectivizing verbal prefixes, i.e. a roz‑, na-, o-/ob- and u-prefix, and deals with the effect they may have on sentence structure and semantics. It also shows how the prefixed verbs combine with the marker się, which flags antipassive, i.e. is a recurring marker attested in antipassive constructions in the Polish language. In section three, an attempt is made at analyzing the interrelations between aspect and antipassive reading of a structure. As it seems that a perfective prefix used with a verb imposes certain requirements on the argument structure of the verb it combines with, we also offer a possible explanation to different aspectual requirements of verbs occurring in antipassive structures, assuming that projections coded in a verb may play a role here.

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„Zaszczytnie odznaczeni na polu naukowem”. Obraz polskich uczonych i badaczy w „Wędrowcu” (1863–1906)

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Pietrzak M.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza

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2022

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vol. 29

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issue 1

137-159

EN

The aim of the article is to present the linguistic image of Polish scholars and research- ers whose profiles, biographies and obituaries were published in the Warsaw weekly newspaper Wędrowiec (Traveller) in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ana- lysing the collected texts, the author distinguished a set of seven aspects which were taken into account by the journalists of Wędrowiec to present the profiles of the schol- ars. Those aspects are the following: the subject of research, scientific achievements, journalistic and publishing activities, didactic and educational activities, science-pro- moting activities, organisational activities, awards and distinctions. They were deter- mined by the points of view adopted by the authors of the texts. There are three domi- nant points of view: the one of an expert, a Pole and a positivist. These points of view coexist and complement each other. The expert and specialist informed the reader in detail about the scientific career and achievements of the scholars. The Polish publi- cist expressed his joy at the international success of his countrymen. He observed their research and scientific achievements with attention; especially those that influenced the development of fields important for the country. The positivist and journalist noticed and emphasised the utilitarian dimension of the scientific and research activities of the scholars.

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Alte und neue Verlaufsformen im Deutschen

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Eroms H.-W.

Studia Germanica Posnaniensia

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2017

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issue 38

63-77

EN

In recent times, German as a language with a well-functioning tense system is developing a special progressive form, marking actions and processes which are continual and not yet terminated. There is a variety of forms like beim Arbeiten or gerade im Begriff sein zu arbeiten, but most usual and by far most grammaticalised is the am-progressive (er ist am Arbeiten, “he is working”). In this paper the restrictions which still exist are discussed. They are limited, but although they are not entirely accepted in standard German, the range of these constructions is extensive. In spite of this fact, the German language does not tend to develop general aspectual markers. A comparison with English shows this clearly. However, in its early periods the German language had overt aspectual characteristics. Especially constructions with the present participle and the auxiliary verbs sein and warden could function as aspect partners. These constructions gradually disappeared at the end of Middle High German. Thus, modern German has only very few aspectual markers, which are restricted to progressive constructions verbalizing actions and processes in actual situations.

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Neue Studien im Bereich der kontrastiven Grammatik und Gedächtniskultur

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Jakosz M.

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław

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2020

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issue 17

379-387

EN

The article contains a review of the forty-first volume of the academic journal Studia Germanica Gedanensia, which is devoted the most current research developments in the field of contrastive grammar and memory culture. In their papers, the authors approach such academic problems as aspect, temporality and modality in German and Polish. They also present the results of their research into ephemera and regional identity from the perspective of memory culture.

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Kvalitatiivsed muutused fraseoloogias: olemus ja suunajad

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Oim K., Oim A.

Mäetagused

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2012

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vol. 51

59–80

EN

The article observes the qualitative change of lexical units as a natural part of the language development process. The authors aspire to explicate the regularities in the changes that the meaning of phraseological expressions has undergone. This is performed on the example of the phrase läheb nagu lepase reega ‘goes as on an alder sleigh’ – an etymologically old and genuine phrase that is popularly used in Estonian dialectal, colloquial and literary language and whose semantic meaning has been subject to the largest possible qualitative change. The reconceptualization of the motif can be explained by the context of the image formation and the cognitive motivation of the motion event.

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Zum Forschungsstand der polnischen Textlinguistik

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Sikora J.

Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik

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2012

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issue 6

141-153

EN

The article deals with selected aspects of Polish text linguistics research. It points to the diversity of defi nitions and the lack of clear criteria for the classifi cation of texts. There is also a lack of distinction between the text and the sentence or phrase, resulting from ambiguous features describing these terms. The article also indicates the variety of defi nitions of ‘coherence', ‘cohesion', ‘delimitation' etc., describing the text as a communication unit. On the basis of the anthropocentric theory of human languages the author presents the model of expression, which shows factors that infl uence the form and content of utterances, related to senders and recipients as well as a given situation/given circumstances. Linguistic expressions cannot be assigned a function or a communicative pragmatic view of the need to take account of linguistic and non-linguistic characteristics of senders and recipients of expressions and their ability to interpret these expressions. Each linguistic utterance is shaped according to the language skills and knowledge of the surrounding reality developed by the participants of the given communicative situation, and the analysis of the circumstances in which a given linguistic utterance is formed.

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Bevægelsesverber i polsk og dansk og ACCOMPLISHMENT-dilemmaet

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Sobkowiak M.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2009

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vol. 10

219-236

EN

The article departs from Smith's (1997) claim that verb constellations constituted by a countable nominal, a verb of motion and a directional PP are ACCOMPLISHMENT constellations in line with 'The child built a house' or 'He wrote a novel'. A series of morphological and syntactic tests are applied to perfective and imperfective ACCOMPLISHMENTS of directed motion in Polish and Danish (biec / at løbe, iść / at gå, lecieć / at flyve og jechać / at køre + directional adverbials). This illustrates that the verb constellations of interest do not always show the features of canonical ACCOMPLISHMENTS that do not refer to motion as such.

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La distinction procès vs résultat à l’exemple de substantifs verbaux (gerundia) et dérivés nominaux polonais

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Kaliska A. K.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2012

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vol. 39

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issue 4

45-60

EN

The purpose of our research is to analyze the processual and the resultative reading of verbal nouns (gerundia) in Polish and to compare them with the corresponding standard derivational forms. Our research is based primarily on the analysis of the co-occurrence with the special kind of support verb named verbe support d’occurrence and the possibilities of using the plural, including the impact that the plural may have on the interpretation of verbal nouns and corresponding derivational forms.

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ASPECT AND PERFORMATIVITY IN SORBIAN

Sobre los orígenes y las confusiones terminológicoconceptuales de los términos de "aspecto"y de "Aktionsart"

Le plus-que-parfait - expression d'antériorité et/ ou d'accompli? Essai d'analyse contrastive

Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations

Time and Space: The Language Clinch

Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese

Aspect indicators for deverbal nominals on different syntactic levels

¿Es aspectual o temporal el carácter de la oposición imperfectivo /perfectivo?

Teaching English tense and aspect with the help of cognitive grammar: An empirical study

Teaching English tense and aspect with the help of cognitive grammar: An empirical study.

L1 French learning of L2 Spanish past tenses: L1 transfer versus aspect and interface issues

‘TAM’ in English constructions vs. Polish renditions – Selected transference pitfalls

Verbal prefixation and realizations of antipassive alternations in Polish

„Zaszczytnie odznaczeni na polu naukowem”. Obraz polskich uczonych i badaczy w „Wędrowcu” (1863–1906)

Alte und neue Verlaufsformen im Deutschen

Neue Studien im Bereich der kontrastiven Grammatik und Gedächtniskultur

Kvalitatiivsed muutused fraseoloogias: olemus ja suunajad

Zum Forschungsstand der polnischen Textlinguistik

Bevægelsesverber i polsk og dansk og ACCOMPLISHMENT-dilemmaet

La distinction procès vs résultat à l’exemple de substantifs verbaux (gerundia) et dérivés nominaux polonais