Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies articles from January 1 2003

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies archives from January 1 2003

Only connect.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The "misplacement" of only illustrated by She only travels on foot, where there is a perceived discrepancy between the placement of only, before the verb, and its scope, the adjunct on foot, has long been controversial among the...

Churls, Harlots and Sires: the semantics of Middle English synonyms of man.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT While early students of linguistics such as, Bechstein (1863), Paul (1880), Breal (1879), Trench (1892) devoted much effort to the issue of diachronic semantic change, the second half of the 20th century was, until the 1980s,...

The Middle English preposition in: a semantic analysis (1).(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of in-prepositional phrases in Middle English. On the semantic level, in-phrases were associated with a spatial or temporal sense in Old English. However, they lost much of their original...

Naturalness: some English (morpho)syntactic examples.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT In Slovenia, the natural syntax of the Klagenfurt brand has been extended to the study of the behaviour of (near-)synonymous syntactic expressions, here called syntactic variants. Below our work is illustrated with...

On partonomy and taxonomy.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This article takes up the question of how the "partonomy--taxonomy" issue can be formulated within Langacker's theory of cognitive grammar. The discussion concentrates on a comparison of taxonomic hierarchies with one particular...

Connectivity and indirect connection in English.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Two semantic notions are defined and illustrated: connectivity, which is the optional insertion of the semantic element 'part' to expand a noun on which it leans, and indirect connection, which is a connection of a noun on the one...

Revisiting the revisited: could we survive without the great vowel shift?(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This is a revised and extended version of a paper read at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at Glasgow University, Scotland in August, 2002. (1) In it I reconsider positions supporting its...

Reading for translation: investigating the process of foreign language text comprehension from an information processing perspective.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to look at foreign language text comprehension from a translator's perspective. Contrary to traditional translation theory interpreting the meaning of the text to be translated is not taken for...

Personal endings of ablaut verbs in early American writings.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The present paper deals with verbal endings in seventeenth and early eighteenth century American English. Since it is a corpus-based study, a collection of early American texts was compiled and afterwards processed manually. The...

Inflectional and/versus derivational morphology: clear-cut types or continua?(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Some colleagues of younger generation may accuse me of being too faithful to traditionalism in observing linguistic phenomena. May I argue, frankly indeed, I do appreciate the contemporary modern computerising trends in collecting...

What users do with dictionaries in situations of comprehension deficit: an empirical study (1).(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The present paper takes up the topic of receptive dictionary use from the perspective of highly advanced learners performing the complex comprehension task of decoding contextually modified idioms, viewed as a source of disruption...

Form in learning foreign lexis.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Interest in lexis and the nature of mental lexicon leads researchers to various theoretical positions and stimulates research on learning foreign vocabulary. The article argues for a stance according to which lexical form is...

Some stylistic typological distances between the prose of some British writers.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The article describes the frequencies of occurrence of gerund, participle 1 and verbal noun in the prose of some writers to establish the stylistic typological distances between them. The author chose 6 features for the gerund, 1...

The phenomenon of cryptic interference: some remarks concerning the process of translation on the basis of an empirical study of sight translation.(Linguistics)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore the nature of certain types of interaction between the source and the target language in the process of translation basing on the notion of language interference in the sense of any violation of the...

The black bird of Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens' thirteen blackbirds.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Both Poe and Stevens perceived imagination as the ultimate faculty of the human mind. The paper attempts a detailed comparison of Poe's "The Raven" and Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as an a example of two...

Different story, different strategy: a comparative study of Achebe's style(s) in a man of the people and Anthills of the Savannah.(Literature)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Literary style, the meeting point between literary criticism and linguistic analysis, is the focus of this paper. The study demonstrates the viability of collaboration between principles of the two approaches. Focusing on two...

The reader erect: Edgar Allan Poe's "The premature burial".(Literature)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This essay examines the function of metanarrative as well as the ways in which the binary systems of truth and fiction, indeed, life and death, are deconstructed through Poe's narrative of structure and lexical choices. The author...

The continental backgrounds of English and its insular development until 1154.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The continental backgrounds of English and its insular development until 1154. By Hans F. Nielsen. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998. Pp. 235. The book under review is part of a large-scale project, intended to consist of three volumes...

English words: History and structure.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... English words: History and structure. By Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 209 plus downloadable sections. The latest mutual enterprise of Stockwell and Minkova sets out to provide a...

An introduction to Middle English.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... An introduction to Middle English. By Simon Horobin and Jeremy Smith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 182. Even though it has already been three years since the latest typically student-oriented contribution by Smith...

Time for words.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Time for words. Edited by Janusz Arabski. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Press, 2002. Pp. 275. As recently as a few decades ago there reigned the nonchalant notion that vocabulary was nothing but a disorderly welter of odds and ends. As the...