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Poland).; Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Va DOCUMENT RESUME BD 130 516 FL 008 061 AUTHOR Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. TITLE Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Voltage 4. The Polish-English Contrastive Project. INSTITUTION Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan (Poland).; Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Va. PUB DATE 76 NOTE 360p.; For related documents, see ED115 079-080 and ED 119 469 AVAILABLE FROMDorothy Rapp, East European Projects,Center for Applied Linguistics, 1611 N. Neat St.,Arlington, Virginia 22209 ($6.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 EC-$19.41 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Bibliographies; Consonants; *Contrastive Linguistics; Distinctive Features; *English; Instructional Materials; Intonation; Language Instruction; Language Patterns; *Morphology (Languages); Phonetics; *Phonology; *Polish; Second Language Learning; Slavic Languages; Stress (Phonology); Suprasegmentals; *Syntax; Transformation Generative Grammar; Verbs ABSTRACT This collection of twenty-six papers is the fourth resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purpose of the project is to prepare a Polish-English dontrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. The basic model used for research is the transforaational generative one, laong the papers on phonology, topics such as stress, intonation, distinctive features, and consonant clusters are discussed, as well as issues in contrastive phonology and phonetics. Clitics, nomipals, ellipsis, and comparative constructions are among the topics discussed in the papers on rorphology and syntax, while modal auxiliaries, verb copplementation, transitive verbs, and the derivation of infinitives are the focus of papers concerned directly with verb syntax and-- morphology. Syntactic ambiguity is discussed as it relates to teaching written English to Polish students, and exercises for intermediate and advanced Polish learners of English are provided. bibliography of English-Polish contrastive studies in Poland follows the papers. (C7K) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available.'Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC sakes available * * via the ERIC Docuaent Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * *********************************************************************** ; A V `1%f4sy' ts .s.";;P,' .475 11(c6P,,t7A6..,..if 1`,..,211", 'VP4,4 it1.`FI " Y7.4 - z t. 4 10 Doc? irf;,,, A' `r e t FORTHCOMINO PAPERS AND STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE Ja mammas 5 ARTICLES BMW Sussex (Molbourno): The measurement of contralti in contrastive linguistic.s Bogus law La wondows ki (Warsaw): Somo postulates concerning the role o,f trans. lotion in contraetive studies ;Iesxy Rubach (Warsaw): Deep versus detail rules in phonology Jorly Rubach (Warsaw): Overkill in phonology .5 wuna Ozga (Cracow): Stress and word order in English and Polish Eckbard Roos (Paderborn) Oontrattive codocatknal analysis Jerzy Tomaszczyk (L6t1t): On establiehing equivalence between lexical items of two langtmgee Jerzy W eln a (Warsaw): Some Polish agent stdistantkes and their equiraknts in Eng- lieha study in contrastive lexicology and word formation Adam Pasicki (Cracow): J(12, JESZCZE and their English equircdenta Aleksponitehr Szwedek (Bydgoszcz): Negation and coreference in Englishand William, S. Sullivan (Cainevillo): Actirc mid passive sentence* in English mid Polish Anna Wolczytiska .S tided (Cracow): Notional passive in English and Polish Stanislaw Du en mai (Lbdik Some aspects of subject verb concord in Polish and English Janina Out .Klos (Warsaw): A commentary on locative impersomd sentences ond their alleged synonyms . aerxy Stan owski (Katowice): Clauses of purpose remits prepoeitional phmsee of purpose in English and Polish Malgorzata G6rIttl (Lublin): Word order. 4 semantic phcaomenon? Henry Niodziolski (Cracow): Semantic considerations of GET and some ty* its basic Polish equivalents Wicslaw Ole ks y (Bydgoszcz): The semantics of HOW and WHY questions in Rag. lish and Polieh Etva I wan io k a (Poznan): On questions and answers in English and Polish .. Roman Kalisz (0dadsk): On the kinehip terms in English and Polish -`4 Elibieta Musk at .Tabakowska (Cracow): Some errors in the use of relot ire pro- nouns in written work of advanced learners 4 Englishthe problem of inter- ferenco REVIEW ' BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 L._ VIEpOLISRENGLISR CONTRAST"'VB PRO JR OT PAPERS AND STUDIES INCONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS VOLUME FOUR Editor: Taoelc lriektic &latent to tho. editors Alekaantire Afieszek Advisory Board Vice-Cludraten: Nis Folk Enkvist (Abe). A. Rood Roberta (Arlington) Menthols mr-D. Bald (Asehen) Wolfgang Ktiblwein (Trier) Rolf Berndt Mostork) Gerhard Nickel (Stt.4tgart) Broder Carateneen (Paderborn) Ivan Poldauf (Praha) 8. Pit Corder (Edinburgh) Michael Sherwood Ehnith (Utreeht) Dintitru. (Bucharest) Edward Stanklewice (New Heron) Ltlado Dee* (Budapest) Roland &user Avyton) Robert Di Pietro (Washington) /an Svartrik (Lund) L. K. Ewa (Leuven)); Werner Winter (Kiel) RudolfPillpovld (Zagreb) POZNAS Aux moicrewicz maVERSITy, POZNAS CENTM, FOR APPLIED IINOVIETIM ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 4 1 + .. Korekter: Andrzej Pietrnik WYDAWNICTWO NAUKOWE ENTWEESYTETE DI. ADAM4 MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIV Wydaoic I. No klad 1204+100 cp. Ark:wyd. 44Ark. dent. 23.l'ssder mt. kl.Ia. SO s. 44w 144. Othict 0 40 alcdsous 17 V 197$ r. Podolsano do druko w olespdo 1976 r. MA okodor000 w airmails 1976 r. Dom or 4711113. Caw z1 166.- DRUKAPAIAttrawansyrum rm.A.wauewiczAW POZNAMI TABLE OF CONTENTS PAPERS AND srmum Ito lend Sussex (Clayson): A note on dress assignment in Polish noun phrasal... 5 .Alcksandor Szwod...)k (Bydgoszcz): The role of sentence stress in the interpretation o f c o r e f e r e n t i a l i t y in English and Polish 13 Maria Baliczorowska (Poznan): Finnish and Polish vowels (a preliminary con- trastive approach) 26 Wolf.Districh Bald (Aachen): Contrastive studies in Engle's/a and G erman intonation: a sunny 37 Jan Cygtn (Virzoclaw): The feature "syllabic" in reoonants and semivowels ... 49 WicslawAwodyk (Poznar1): Some remarks on generatke eontrastive phohology .. 53 Janina Ozga (Cracow): The relevance of the notion "basis of articulation" to con- trastive phonetics' 61 Stanislaw ru ppol (Poznail): Final Joneronant clusters in English and Paid. ... 75 Temasz P. Krzoszowski (1.6d21): On some linguistic limitations of am:sisal con- &entice analyse. 86 Tadousz Zabrocki (Postati): On the so-called "theoretical cants astive studies" .. 97 Shopen (Arhngtoa) and Wc..1.crian gwioczkowski (Lub!in): Some re- marker on ellipsis in Polish and English 111 Janina Ozga (Cracow): Olitice in English and Polish 127 Miroslaw Nowakowski (Pozna75): Nominal* in contrastive studies. English nomi- nal compounds and their Polish equivalent* 141 Alicia Woloszyk-Fisarska (Poznalt): Basic characteristic of comparative eon- *traction. in English and Polish 153 Henry Niodziolski (Cracow): Polish and English pseudo.rejlexives 167 Anna Molorowicz (1'ozna0): On the *mantic* of some English and Polish verbs 190 riotr Kakiotok (Katowice): Formal characteristics of the mode,: auxiliaries in English and Polish 205 Barbara Lowandowska (1.6dt): Types of vat complementation in English and their equivalents in Polish 217 Christian Todenhagon (Paderborn): English and Gerenan possessional adjectives: a linguiedic explemation for an error of omeasion 231 Barbara liadorowicz.Bacz (Cracow): Semantic problems with "left" and "right" 241 4 Aleksander Szwodok (Bydgoszcz): Pronowm as articles') 265 Zonon Jaranowski (L6d2): Selected contrastive features in English Polish grammar of transitive verbs 273 Michael S her wood Smith (Utrecht): Inte.language and intralanguage paraphrase 297 Barbara Lewandowska (L6d2): Derivation of infinitives in English and Polish 303 Elibieta.Muskat.Tabakowska (Cracow): Syntactic ambiguity and the teaching of written English to advanced Polish learnersnorm and usage. 319 Michael Sharwood Smi4 h (Utrecht): Collected exercises for intermediate and ad vanced Polish learners of English 333 MBLIOCRAPHY Maria Kawiliska (Poznaii): Bibliography of Engtish.Polish contrastive studies is Poland 369 1 7 A NOTE ON STRESS ASSIGNMENT IN POLISH NOUN PHRASES ROLAND SUSSEX Monad& UnirettlY, Clayton, Australia In a recent paper on the order of attributive adjectives in Polish (Sussex 1974) 1 proposed that the placing of the adjective in pre- or pest-nominal position, and the order of attributive adjectives, are basically similar in na- ture to the rules operating in pre-modifying languages like English, German and Russian. These rules employ a syntactie-semantie subclassification of adjectives, based on their prenominal slots: (I)sp(Ax...Ay-l-Nhe where x and y are slot indkes, and x>y Polish differs from pre-nominally modifying languages in that adjectives of certain subclasses usually follow the noun notably most of the "rela- tional" (olnositernye) adjectives of traditional Russian grammars: (2a) maszyna elektryczna (2b) gramatyka opisowa (2e) pytanie ideologiezne cf. .(3a) dobra maszyna (3b) pelna gramatyka (k) trudne pytsnie The remainder of the relational adjectives and qualitative adjectives (kafe- /Octave prilagaternye) may follow the noun in the contrastive construction (4a) dziennik
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