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Determinants of supply chains of blood in Poland

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Jeziorski P., Twaróg S.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica

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2011

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vol. 255

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Celem pracy jest określenie kluczowych czynników kształtujących łańcuch dostaw krwi w Polsce. Przeprowadzona wstępna analiza danych z wykorzystaniem wielowymiarowych metod statystycznych pozwoli zobrazować obecną sytuację polskiego krwiodawstwa w układzie terytorialnym. Praca jest pierwszym etapem zmierzającym do określenia optymalnego zapotrzebowania krwi w Polsce.

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The use of articles in L2 English: A phraseological perspective

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Leśniewska J.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2016

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vol. 6

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issue 2

203-224

EN

While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is universally perceived), or whether the correct use of articles is to some extent aided by the mechanisms that underlie the formulaic character of language. The study was conducted with 90 Polish upper-intermediate and advanced users of L2 English, who completed a test on article use, which made it possible to compare patterns of article use between contexts of different collocational strength (defined in terms of the frequency of occurrence in a corpus). The statistically higher success rates for article use in high-frequency collocations (with the grammatical “rule” being the same) indicate that phraseological aspects of language use may indeed play a role in what is usually perceived as the correct application of grammatical rules.

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Pronouns in Estonian Child Language

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Vija M., Pajusalu R.

Ad verba liberorum

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2009

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vol. 1

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issue 1

23-31

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Pronouns are words that fall on the boundaries of vocabulary and grammar. They possess several distinctive characteristics that are important for language acquisition. First, since the referent of a pronoun only becomes apparent in context, the interpretation of pronouns requires a specific kind of information. In order to understand to whom I, you or this refer, we need to know the whole communicative situation. This fact should still not complicate language acquisition too much, because the child's language development starts with ‘here and now’. Yet, the acquisition of a pragmatico-grammatical complex of pronouns is bound to take time due to the variety of pronoun functions involved. On the one hand, the referents of pronouns (especially those of speech act pronouns mina ‘I’ and sina ‘you:2SG’) change constantly, making an exact repetition of what an adult said, in most cases, impossible for the child. On the other hand, the areas of use of certain pronouns (e.g., those expressing definiteness) require the mastery of narrative principles. There are also studies that show that the acquisition of pronouns after the critical age is especially difficult or even impossible (see the discussion of Genie's case in Lust 2006: 95).This article gives an analysis of the acquisition of Estonian personal and demonstrative pronouns. In Estonian, similarly to many other languages, a group of frequently used pronouns functions as a device for minimal reference and for determining noun phrases for referential needs of ongoing discourse. The group consists of different types of pronouns: personal (mina, sina, tema, meie, teie, nemad), demonstrative (see), possessive (oma), and quantificational (üks, mingi). In addition, there are also some adverbs used for deictic reference, for example those of spatial reference (siin ‘here’, seal ‘there’, etc.). Some of these pro-words are typically used in deictic contexts and refer to entities present in the physical context (1 and 2sg personal pronouns and demonstratives); others refer primarily anaphorically (3rd person pronoun and demonstratives), and typically have an antecedent in the ongoing discourse. The same pronouns (except personal) can function as determiners very much like articles in Indo-European languages. Thus, we can see a group of core prowords that are frequent and have different functions. An overview of these devices of pronominal reference is given in Pajusalu (in press).

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The use of articles in L2 English: A phraseological perspective

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Leśniewska J.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2016

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vol. 6

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issue 2

203-224

EN

While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is universally perceived), or whether the correct use of articles is to some extent aided by the mechanisms that underlie the formulaic character of language. The study was conducted with 90 Polish upper-intermediate and advanced users of L2 English, who completed a test on article use, which made it possible to compare patterns of article use between contexts of different collocational strength (defined in terms of the frequency of occurrence in a corpus). The statistically higher success rates for article use in high-frequency collocations (with the grammatical “rule” being the same) indicate that phraseological aspects of language use may indeed play a role in what is usually perceived as the correct application of grammatical rules.

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Nominální anafora a determinace — kontrastivní analýza francouzských a českých systémových možností

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Pešek O.

Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

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2014

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vol. 96

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issue 2

147-164

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This study deals with the issue of nominal anaphora in Czech and in French. Applying the contrastive perspective, we analyze the distribution of determiners within the different types of anaphora. The goal is to highlight the semantic specificities of determiners (identifiers) as they manifest themselves in the anaphoric relations. The results show the structural differences which exist between the two compared languages.

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Négation, syntaxe, détermination. Un bilan et des questions

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Muller C.

Neophilologica

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2021

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vol. 33

1-23

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The present paper retraces some results of my own investigations, among other authors, on such questions as negation, levels of analysis of sentences, and internal structure of NPs, after years of research in the field. It suggests some possible paths of further investigations, among others: thus, negation needs a multi-levels of analysis, including an enunciative component; syntax requires an adequate description of informative value of items, and the internal composition of determiners in French remains an open question.

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Volba determinantů v nominální anafoře — srovnání situace ve španělštině a češtině

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Erbenová A.

Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

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2016

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vol. 98

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issue 2

181-198

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This study deals with issues of determiners in different types of nominal anaphora in Spanish and Czech. It analyzes the choice between demonstratives and the definite article in Spanish. As there is no definite article in Czech, speakers choose between demonstratives and the noun without any determiner. Our goal is to identify the factors that influence the choice of determiners in both languages and the similarities and differences between them. The results show that the situation in both languages is complex and that the definite article in Spanish sometimes corresponds to the null-determiner in Czech and sometimes to a demonstrative.

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Determinants of supply chains of blood in Poland

The use of articles in L2 English: A phraseological perspective

Pronouns in Estonian Child Language

The use of articles in L2 English: A phraseological perspective

Nominální anafora a determinace — kontrastivní analýza francouzských a českých systémových možností

Négation, syntaxe, détermination. Un bilan et des questions

Volba determinantů v nominální anafoře — srovnání situace ve španělštině a češtině