Prenner, Maria Katarzyna ORCID: 0000-0002-9729-0336 and Bunčić, Daniel
ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907
(2021).
The competition of arb constructions in Polish.
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 29 (2).
pp. 201-220.
Bloomington (IN):
Slavica Publishers.
ISSN 1543-0391
Abstract
Polish has three quasi-synonymous impersonal constructions, the no/ to construc¬tion, the reflexive impersonal, and the 3pl impersonal. This raises the question of what the differences between them are and how one of them is selected. This paper presents the results of an acceptability judgement test, which is informed by an explorative corpus study and examines the following factors: colloquial vs. neutral register; perfective vs. imperfective aspect; present tense vs. preterite; generic vs. specific reading. The main findings are that the 3pl impersonal turned out to be better in colloquial discourse and the reflexive impersonal is much more acceptable with the imperfective than with the perfective aspect. Furthermore, the corpus data and the acceptability judgements show numerically that both reflexive and 3pl impersonal have a certain tendency towards present tense and generic reading, and that the no/ to construction is more typical with the perfective than the imperfective aspect.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-755367 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1353/jsl.2021.0007 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Slavic Linguistics | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 29 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 201-220 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Slavica Publishers | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Bloomington (IN) | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1543-0391 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | Language, Linguistics Other languages |
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/75536 |
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