Studies in Polish Linguistics Editor in Chief Roman Laskowski Elbieta Tabakowska Cracow, Poland Cracow, Poland Assistant Editors Ireneusz Bobrowski Ewa Willim Cracow, Poland Cracow, Poland Secretary Dariusz Hanusiak
[email protected] ul. Czapskich 4 31-110 Cracow, Poland Editorial Board Barbara Bacz Andrzej Bogusławski Quebec City, Canada Warsaw, Poland Allan Cienki David Frick Durham, NC USA Berkeley, CA USA Stanisław Gajda Maciej Grochowski Opole, Poland Toruń, Poland Edmund Gussmann Gerd Hentschel Pozna, Poland Oldenburg, Germany Laura Janda Elena V. Paducheva Chapel Hill, NC USA Moscow, Russia Kazimierz Polaski Alexander Schenker Katowice, Poland New Haven, CT USA Zuzanna Topoliska Daniel Weiss Skopje, Macedonia Zurich, Switzerland Anna Wierzbicka Hélène Wlodarczyk Canberra, Australia Paris, France www.ijp-pan.pl/sipl ISSN 1732-8160 Edited by LEXIS Publishing Ltd, 31-120 Cracow, al. Mickiewicza 31 Cover and layout: © FALL © Copyright by LEXIS Publishing Ltd, Cracow 2010 © Copyright by Institute of Polish Language of Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow 2010 Contents Polański — obituary . 5 ARTICLES Aleksander Kiklewicz A Distributional Model of Language Variants . 7 Boena Cetnarowska and Jadwiga Stawnicka Th e verb’s semantics and its compatibility with temporal durative adverbials in Polish . 27 Zygmunt Saloni So-Called Collective Numerals in Polish (in Comparison with Russian) . 51 Elbieta Tabakowska Th e story of ZA: in defense of the radial category . 65 Ireneusz Bobrowski Some remarks on an unfair narrative about certain linguistic ideas of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay . 79 Bogdan Szymanek On word-initial plosive sequences in Polish . 85 Adam Pawłowski Form word frequencies to the cognitive map of Europe. Multidimensional scaling in the analysis of a multilingual corpus .