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In Slavic languages the same scenes of the path-goal schema are often coded by different cases, prepositions and sometimes verbal prefixes. The differences have not been explained up to now. We want to show that this can best be done within the cognitive linguistic framework. We focus on the analysis of a few instantiations of the schema that refers to physical movement in certain settings, and on...
Slavic names of ‘the back’ and ‘the shoulders’ in the light of dialectal materials and historic sourcesThe meaning of the names of ‘the back’ and ‘the shoulders’ are very ambiguous, which is also characteristic of the other names of the parts of the body. Certain names of ‘the back’ often refer to only their upper or lower part, as well as to ‘the spinal column’, while certain names of ‘the shoulders’...
Multilingual information retrieval system of Slavic linguistics iSybislaw: challenges, achievements and opportunitiesIn multilingual information retrieval (IR) system iSybislaw we introduce a number of solutions enlarging its efficiency and effectiveness with the main tool, which presents the keyword language. In this paper the applicability and consistency of the accepted approach in the presentation...
Some remarks on the equivalence keywords in the iSybislaw system information (based on selected grammatical terms)The article focuses on one of the issues connected with the development of the information retrieval system iSybislaw. The system contains a biographical database of Slavic linguistics which is available online at www.isybislaw.ispan.waw.pl. An important element of the system are key...
Synonymy and search synonymy in an IR system (on the basis of linguistic terminology and the iSybislaw system)The paper focuses on some problems of synonymy in the linguistic terminology and solutions for the optimal representation of information in the structure of an IR language. Linguistic terms in addition to metalinguistic meaning also carry some meta-scientific information (e.g. on the methodological...
Modern Slavic languages and academic Slavic Studies: processes, tendencies, communication and derivation (review)The article is a review of the volume Specyfika leksyki i słowotwórstwa języków słowiańskich na przełomie XX i XXI wieku (“Prace Slawistyczne – Slavica” series, vol. 136), ed. Zofia Rudnik-Karwatowa, Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, Warszawa 2012, 188 pp. Współczesne języki słowiańskie a...
Deminutivity in Slavic word formation studies. Report from the conference of the Word-Formation Committee of the International Committee of Slavists (Slovenia, Maribor, 25–29 May 2015)The article is a report from the 16th International Scientific Conference of the Word-Formation Committee of the International Committee of Slavists, held in Maribor, Slovenia, on 25–29 May 2015. The authors offer a...
International scientific conference Мови Європи в стані оновлення (Kiev, 20–21 April 2016)The article is a report from an international scientific conference, organised on 20–21 April 2016 in Kiev by the Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The conference, entitled Мови Європи в стані оновлення, was devoted to innovations in European languages, including especially...
Wortbildung und Internet / Словообразование и интернет / Tvorba riječi i internet [Word-Formation and the Internet] (Institut für Slawistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 22–25.03.2016). 17th International Conference of the Word-Formation Commission of the International Committee of SlavistsThe article is a report of the 17th International Conference held on March 22–25, 2016, at the Institute...
Predicate-argument structure of Polish and Bulgarian polyprefixal verbsThe modern Bulgarian and Polish languages display a tendency to create polyprefixal verbs that are characteristic carriers of expression in the spoken language. This tendency is especially apparent in Bulgarian. A question then arises: is the complexity of formative structure of such units reflected in their predicate-argument...
Oleksandr Mel′nychuk as an Etymologist and ComparatistOleksandr Mel′nychuk (1921–1997) made a great contribution to the theory and methodology of historical-comparative studies of genetically related languages. His work mainly concerned three areas: the word family approach to the study of Slavic, Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, the theory of monoglottogenesis, and the historical typology...
Patterns of Morphological Integration of Slavic Loan Nouns in Petkevičius’ Catechism (1598) as an Indication of Their Origin and ChronologyThis article focuses on the morphological integration of Slavic loan nouns featuring in Merkelis Petkevičius’ Catechism (1598) into the Lithuanian language. It attempts to establish whether the pattern of adaptation of a Slavic loanword to a particular Lithuanian...
On the Role of the Inner Form of the Word in Historical Translations of the Bible into Slavic LanguagesThis article investigates the role of the inner form of the word in the process of translation, which is seen as a mediated form of verbal creation. Although the process of both oral and written translation has been traditionally viewed as entirely synchronic (i.e. unaffected by the deep layers of...
The Component “Seven” in Slavic Phraseology and Paremical Units Units with a numeral component are clearly noticeable in phraseo-paremical resources. This is particularly the case of richly represented multiword combinations with the lexeme “seven”. The comparative analysis presented in this article considers the phrases and paremias of Slavic languages with the component “seven”. They manifest a...
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