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Surface transfer in the acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 Swedish. A longitudinal study

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Długosz K.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2023

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vol. 33

4-13

EN

This longitudinal study explores two specific aspects of the acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 Swedish: the use of a default gender and surface transfer. Twenty-one L1 Polish university students of L2 Swedish were tested by means of an untimed gender assignment task after two, three, and four semesters of studying. The data were analysed using a two-way ANOVA for repeated measures. Participants had more success in assigning gender to Swedish nouns that shared gender across Polish and Swedish than to Swedish nouns that differed in gender across the two languages, regardless of length of experience in learning Swedish. Contrary to previous studies that observed overgeneralisation of uter gender forms in production, this study did not identify the tendency to use uter as a default, presumably because participants had unlimited time to perform the task. This finding points to a dissociation between the knowledge of grammatical gender and the ability to use it during processing.

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Conceptual metaphors for visual/auditory perception in Swedish

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Minamisawa Y.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2020

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vol. 28

4-16

EN

This study aims to illustrate how visual and auditory perception are conceptualized in Swedish and what differences there are between them. Previous studies often discuss perception in relation to the oppositely directed motions between the perceiver and the object perceived. In the Perceiver-as-Source type, perception occurs when our eyes/gaze reach the object perceived. In the Perceived-as-Source type, perception takes place when sense stimuli reach the perceiver. The data show two differences between visual and auditory perception. First, we find more metaphorical expressions for visual perception than for auditory perception. Second, we also find that, while visual perception has a stronger connection to the Perceiver-as-Source type, auditory perception is more strongly connected to the Perceived-as-Source type. These two differences are explained by the function of the perceptual organs.

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The present participle and gender assignment in Swedish

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Skrzypek D.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2021

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vol. 31

15-22

EN

The paper considers gender assignment of deverbal nouns, originally present participles, in Swedish. The perspective is diachronic. The corpus consists of a choice of Swedish texts from 1225-1732. The results show that nouns denoting entities ranking higher in the Animacy hierarchy show tendencies to be placed in the utrum gender (originally masculine and feminine genders) and nouns denoting mass, collective or abstract referents to be assigned neuter gender. This tendency is visible throughout the history of the Swedish language.

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Eestirootsi keele prosoodia tunnusjooni

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Asu E. L.

Mäetagused

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2017

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vol. 68

9-26

EN

Estonian Swedish was traditionally spoken on the western coast and islands of Estonia. Nowadays, it is almost extinct, surviving only as a language of occasional communication of some elderly speakers who emigrated from Estonia to Sweden as children during World War II. Estonian Swedish is a typologically interesting variety of Swedish, as it retains a number of archaic segmental features (e.g. Old Scandinavian diphthongs) and has been influenced by its most important contact language, Estonian. The article addresses such aspects of Estonian Swedish prosody as word accents and rhythm. An investigation of the realisation of tonal accents in disyllabic words showed that Estonian Swedish (like Finland Swedish) lacks the lexical pitch accent distinction that is characteristic of Standard Swedish. A comparative study of rhythm in read speech explored the hypothesis that Estonian Swedish may be intermediate between Swedish (as represented by Central Swedish from the Stockholm area) and Estonian. The results showed, however, that the durational values of Estonian Swedish rhythm are very similar to those of Central Swedish.

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The role of inter- and intralingual factors and compendiums in acquisition of Swedish as a foreign language: the case of Finns learning definiteness and the use of articles

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Nyqvist E.-L.

Research in Language

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2016

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vol. 14

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issue 3

297-327

EN

This study explores the acquisition of definiteness and article use in written Swedish by Finnish-speaking teenagers (n=67) during the three years in secondary school. The studied grammatical phenomena are problematic for all L2 learners of Swedish and are especially difficult for learners, such as Finns, whose L1 lacks expressive definiteness morphologically. The informants produce complex NPs already in their first narratives. The form of NPs poses significantly more problems than the choice of a correct form of definiteness. Hence, it is possible that previous knowledge in English helps informants in the choice of definiteness. The common nominator for problematic expressions is simplification, in both formal aspects and in the relation between form and meaning. Previous research in Sweden has made similar findings. The most central types of NPs build an acquisition explainable by a complexity hierarchy between the different types of NPs. The informants master best NPs without definiteness markers. Definite singulars containing an ending are significantly easier than indefinite singulars, the indefinite article of which is notoriously difficult for Finns learning Swedish as an L2. This acquisition order, however, profoundly differs from the traditional order of instruction of their compendiums.

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The same or different: A comparison of the rhythmic structure of Swedish and Albanian

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Tronnier M., Zetterholm E.

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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2016

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vol. 52

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issue 4

745-762

EN

The purpose of this contribution is to give an account of the similarities or dissimilarities of the speech rhythm of Swedish and Albanian. In this study, temporal features were focused on to ascertain rhythmic differences between the two languages. The interest for this study arose when a clear rhythmic variation was observed in the accented Swedish L2 speech produced by L1-speakers of Albanian, namely the lack of attributes like reduction in unstressed syllables. It was thus hypothesised that speakers of L1-Swedish would produce larger variation in length of vocalic and/or consonantal intervals than L1-speakers of Albanian. The recorded material comprised read speech produced by seven L1-speakers of both languages. Various acoustic metrics were applied to analyse the rhythm. Results show differences between Swedish and Albanian speech for both non-normalised and normalised metrics only for the vocalic intervals, but with an unexpected outcome. In that way, larger length variation for vocalic intervals in the Albanian material than in the Swedish material was found. Therefore, the occurrence of reduction phenomena also in Albanian can be stated. These findings contradict the assumption that transfer from L1-Albanian was the reason for lack of reduction in L2-Swedish, as observed previously.

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Wstęp do fonetyki i fonologii języka szwedzkiego nareszcie w języku polskim

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Jarosz J.

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław

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2021

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issue 20

407-414

EN

The first publication of an academic textbook has always been an important event for teachers at universities for two reasons. Every new title is a help in the case of a lack of textbooks, and a well-designed and solidly edited didactic aid – as didactic practice shows – can serve well for many generations for decades. This article discusses the first Polish textbook on Swedish phonetics and phonology with regard to its content and the methodological solutions used. The results of the analysis can be helpful for anyone interested in making a purchase decision. The criteria of analysis include the following aspects in the field of philological competence: 1) selection and scope of the problem, which should provide a theoretical orientation in the questions of general and Swedish phonetics and phonology; 2) the typology and objective of the exercises, which should help to achieve certain skills in the field of pronunciation and phonetic transcription; 3) content components that enable the acquisition of social skills; 4) Didactic strategies and forms of teaching the linguistic knowledge and skills for students in the first year of study. In the discussion, the advantages of the book were emphasized and the deficiencies found were commented on so that teachers can easily compensate for them. Despite some weaknesses, the book represents an optimal combination of the analyzed characteristics and can be used as a useful textbook in academic didactic practice. The textbook is especially recommended to all students of Scandinavian and Neophilological Studies.

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Some uffish thoughts on the Swedish translations of “Jabberwocky”

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Sundmark B.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2017

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vol. 5

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issue 3

EN

In this article the “translatability” (and/or untranslatability) of nonsense is addressed. For this purpose, five Swedish versions of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871) are examined: the vocabulary, the syntax, the metre and rhythm, as well as the poem’s contextual framing, here mainly understood as the narrative in which Jabberwocky is embedded. Attention is also paid to the generic and stylistic context of the poem, and the corpus of Swedish translations. Such an exegesis is warranted by the status of Jabberwocky both as a seminal work of nonsense and as a translation showpiece. Influential critics, from Elizabeth Sewell (1952) to Jean-Paul Lecercle (1994) have used Jabberwocky as a key nonsense text. And even when it is to question whether Jabberwocky is a good example or not – Michael Heyman, for instance, argues that Jabberwocky is something of an “outlier” in the realm of nonsense since its nonsense is linguistic rather than logical (2015) – it remains a defining nonsense text. Moreover, it also a pivotal text in translation history. Indeed, because of the perceived difficulties in translating it, Jabberwocky has rightfully been called “the holy grail of translation” (Heyman 2015), something that is borne out by the large number of studies devoted to it, such as Orero Pilar’s 2007 monograph of several Spanish versions of Jabberwocky. What I bring to this critical discussion is empirical material that has not been brought to light before (the Swedish translations), and a new perspective.

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Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs

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Viberg Å.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2017

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vol. 3

195-215

EN

A basic problem for contrastive lexical studies in general is to find a model for the semantic analysis. This paper is one in a series of corpus-based contrastive studies of the field of Verbal Communication Verbs (VCVs) in English and Swedish. Searle’s classification of speech acts serves as an important starting point but is not directly concerned with lexical structure, which is a major concern for the two theories that are compared in this study. FrameNet based on Fillmore’s theory of semantic frames and Wierzbicka’s theory of semantic primitives (or “primes”). The theories are applied and tested on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC) containing English and Swedish original texts together with their translations into the other language. Primarily two groups of English verbs and their Swedish correspondents will be analyzed: (1) Information verbs such as tell, inform, notify, report, narrate and describe and (2) Speech activity verbs such as talk, speak, chat, converse, gossip, discuss, debate, negotiate and bargain. There is also an analysis of Swedish berätta ‘tell, narrate’ based on the Multilingual Parallel Corpus (MPC) as an example of multilingual contrastive analysis. Frames relate in a clear way the conceptual structure and the syntactic argument structure, which is very useful in a contrastive study. However, the definition of the meaning of individual verbs is incomplete and needs to be complemented with some kind of decompositional analysis such as the theory of semantic primes. A special section is devoted to an analysis of a large number of compound and derived forms of the Swedish verb tala ‘speak’ and a discussion of how contrasts in morphological structure can affect the lexical contrasts between two languages.

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Asking and answering: A contrastive study of English and Swedish basic communication verbs

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Viberg Å.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2016

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vol. 2

180-212

EN

This article presents a contrastive study of the English verbs ask and answer and their Swedish correspondents based on data from the English Swedish Parallel Corpus (ESPC), which is bi-directional and contains Swedish and English original texts and their corresponding translations. As a background, a short overview is given of Verbal Communication Verbs (VCVs) in general with brief discussions of speech act theory (Searle), direct and reported speech and conceptual frames (FrameNet) and their syntactic realizations. The contrastive study is concerned with networks of polysemy and the relationships of various senses with differing syntactic realizations across languages. The senses of ask are primarily distributed between two verbs in Swedish: fråga ‘ask a question’ and be ‘request (politely)’ but even some verbs with more specific meanings are involved. The concept of answering forms a conceptual network which is similar in English and Swedish but contrasts with respect to the way meanings are divided up between various verbs. English has a number of verbs such as answer, reply, respond, correspond, retort and rejoin, whereas Swedish to a great extent relies on one verb (svara) and its morphological derivations: besvara, ansvara, motsvara, försvara. In the Conclusion, pedagogical applications of the study are briefly discussed.

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Relative clauses in narrative fiction. Findings from a parallel text in Swedish, German, Latvian, Polish and English

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Nau N.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2011

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vol. 12

181-195

EN

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Om det explicita och implicita i två översättningar av August Strindbergs 'Dödsdansen'

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Rosińska P.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2011

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vol. 12

245-258

EN

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Tack så mycket! O szwedzkiej grzeczności językowej na przykładzie podziękowania w końcowych sekwencjach rozmowy telefonicznej

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Zborowski P.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2011

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vol. 12

359-379

EN

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Język a tożsamość etniczna. Kształtowanie się poczucia narodowego młodej polskiej diaspory w warunkach wielokulturowości

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Laskowski R.

LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa

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2013

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issue 16

77-93

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More than two million people emigrated from Poland after the accession to the European Union. Most of them were young, and future parents. In the coming years, Polish diaspora will grow by several thousand children born outside of their parents’ homeland. These children will, and already do, face the necessity of reconciling the awareness of their Polish roots with the need to find their place inside the community of the country they live in. Language is the key both to their inherited culture, and to the culture of the host community. Polish, and the language of the dominant society. A generation of diaspora is now growing, that was immersed from birth in two languages and two cultures. It is the task of the parents, of the teachers, and of the Polish state, to make bilingualism the wealth of these children, and of both of their homelands. Well-planned work with parents is necessary, but most of all, an accurate identification of the mechanisms of linguistic interference in the conditions of life in two languages should be thoroughly investigated.

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Schwedisches, Finnisches und Polnisches in Mika Waltaris historischem Roman 'Karin, Magnustochter'

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Mrozewicz B.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2010

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vol. 11

16-35

EN

The article is an attempt at analysing the Swedish, Finnish and Polish elements in Mika Waltari’s first historical novel, Karin Månsdotter (1942), which is based on an earlier movie script (1941). The novel describes historical events at the time when Sweden was ruled by King Erik XIV. The story of the king’s life, his efforts aimed at strengthening his position in the country and Sweden’s position in the Baltic Sea region in the 16th century, as well as the connected historical events, are presented with the king’s private life in the background, including his love for a common woman whom he married and made queen of Sweden. The author points out that the novel in question seems to portray historical events somewhat freely. In creating the stories of the main characters, Waltari used unverified sources, such as motives that had been told and retold by common people and some historiographers. This is not the case in his later novels, which are based on verified historical sources. Waltari created a very conventional, highly contrasted image of his female characters: Karin has only positive features, while Catherine the Jagiellonian and her husband John III (the Prince of Finland and later on the King of Sweden) have utterly negative ones.

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Textual Origins of the Indefinite Article in Swedish

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Skrzypek D.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2013

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vol. 15

EN

The present paper studies the earliest stages of the grammaticalization of indefinite article in Old Swedish. The study is based on a corpus of Old Swedish texts and uses the model of grammaticalization as proposed by Heine 1997. The article en, etymologically related to the numeral ‘one’, is first used to mark new and salient discourse-referents and its primary function is cataphoric. However, en only fulfills this function when ocurring in a sentenceinitial subject NP. In the course of the grammaticalization, neither the sentence-initial position nor the subject function of the NP are required to present new and salient discourse referents.

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Konotacje semantyczne i kulturowe polskiej nazwy barwy zielonej i jej odpowiedników w języku ukraińskim, szwedzkim i wietnamskim

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Waszakowa K.

Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury

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2000

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vol. 12

221–232

PL

Artykuł przynosi omówienie konotacji semantycznych i kulturowych właściwych nazwie barwy zielonej w czterech językach: polskim, ukraińskim, szwedzkim i wietnamskim. W opisie materiału językowego, zebranego w ramach zespołowego tematu badawczego z zakresu porównawczej semantyki leksykalnej, autorka koncentruje się na przedstawieniu zjawisk wspólnych przynajmniej dla dwóch z zestawianych języków. Omawiane w pracy nazwy barw odznaczają się dużą łączliwością, która odzwierciedla poszczególne profile ich znaczenia prototypowego, odnoszącego się do roślinności. Uwidocznione w analizie stosunkowo duże zbieżności w kierunkach rozwoju konotacji znaczeniowych i kulturowych podstawowych nazw barw: polskiej zielony, ukraińskiej zełenyj, szwedzkiej grön i wietnamskiej zanh są interpretowane jako argumenty uzasadniające hipotezę o istnieniu pewnych wzorców kulturowych, podstawowych dla ludzkiej percepcji i konceptualizacji.

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The article discusses semantic and cultural connotations of the terms for the colour green in four languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Swedish and Vietnamese. In her analysis of the material, collected by a team of researches working on contrastive lexical semantics, the author focuses on phenomena common to at least two out of the four languages. The terms under investigation exhibit considerable valence reflecting various profiles of their prototypical meaning relating to plant life. The developments of semantic and cultural connotations of the Polish zielony, Ukrainian zelenyi, Swedish grön and Vietname.se xanh are rather diverse, which is taken as corroboration of the hypothesis according to which there exist certain cultural patterns basic for human perception and conceptualization.

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Surface transfer in the acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 Swedish. A longitudinal study

Conceptual metaphors for visual/auditory perception in Swedish

The present participle and gender assignment in Swedish

Eestirootsi keele prosoodia tunnusjooni

The role of inter- and intralingual factors and compendiums in acquisition of Swedish as a foreign language: the case of Finns learning definiteness and the use of articles

The same or different: A comparison of the rhythmic structure of Swedish and Albanian

Wstęp do fonetyki i fonologii języka szwedzkiego nareszcie w języku polskim

Some uffish thoughts on the Swedish translations of “Jabberwocky”

Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs

Asking and answering: A contrastive study of English and Swedish basic communication verbs

Relative clauses in narrative fiction. Findings from a parallel text in Swedish, German, Latvian, Polish and English

Om det explicita och implicita i två översättningar av August Strindbergs 'Dödsdansen'

Tack så mycket! O szwedzkiej grzeczności językowej na przykładzie podziękowania w końcowych sekwencjach rozmowy telefonicznej

Język a tożsamość etniczna. Kształtowanie się poczucia narodowego młodej polskiej diaspory w warunkach wielokulturowości

Schwedisches, Finnisches und Polnisches in Mika Waltaris historischem Roman 'Karin, Magnustochter'

Textual Origins of the Indefinite Article in Swedish

Konotacje semantyczne i kulturowe polskiej nazwy barwy zielonej i jej odpowiedników w języku ukraińskim, szwedzkim i wietnamskim