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Discrete Entailment-Based Linking and -EE Nouns in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
Barker (1998) argues that since the referent of an -ee noun can be an indirect object, a direct object, a prepositional object, or a subject, -ee nouns cannot be described as a syntactic natural class. Portero Muñoz (2003) ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Copula in Latin: on a Textual Problem in Cicero's Oration in Defence of Publius Sestius
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
A textual problem from Cicero's oration In defence of Publius Sestius is discussed in order to determine syntactic and semantic consequences of editorial choices. The discussion involves semantic and syntactic properties ...
The Time Constraint in Conference Interpreting: Simultaneous vs. Consecutive
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
The present paper focuses on the concept of time constraint in interpreting. The main aim of the study is to compare the two modes of interpreting, i.e. consecutive and simultaneous in terms of the temporal load imposed ...
Understanding Language Death in Czech-Moravian Texas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
Based on several decades of personal interaction with Texas speakers of Czech, the author's article attempts to correlate social change with some specific stages of language obsolescence and language death. Many instances ...
Topological Modelling of Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
It is assumed that aspect in both cases — as a process-profiling category — is analogous to the profiling of things and atemporal relations (in the sense of Langacker 1987, 1990, 2000), given the maximisation of the temporal ...
Distribution of Word Classes in Old English and Old High German: A Preliminary Contrastive Study Based on The Battle of Maldon, Hildebrandslied and Ludwigslied
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
This paper presents an example of a historical study based on comparable corpora. It aims to analyse and compare the distribution of different parts of speech in Old English and Old High German, thus providing a quantitative ...
A Note on Iconicity and Motivation of Expression
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
While iconic effects can be detected at all levels of linguistic analysis, according to the standard position they have little, if any, relevance for the system of language. I would like to show that iconicity seems marginal ...
Book Reviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Non-Rhoticity in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)
Moreover, the paper demonstrates a way in which r-liaison might be incorporated in the synchronic grammar of non-rhotic accents. Simply put, r-liaison could be perceived as another instantiation of VSpread conspiracy, where ...
In a Methodological Trap: Review article of The phonology of Danish, by Hans Basbøll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2007-12-18)