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• Title:
  Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefiniteness
• Creator:
  Roszko, Danuta;
  Roszko, Roman
• Description:
  Differences in the formalization of the semantic category of definiteness / indefinitenessBasing on theoretical contrastive studies guidelines, the article defines the semantic category of definiteness/indefiniteness where two basic opposition meanings are being ascribed to. It also distinguishes crucial sub-meanings for this category. The category established like this constitutes a characteristic interlanguage typical of theoretical contrastive studies, which is here used as tertium comparationis for demonstrating the formal differences between Polish, Lithuanian and dialectal exponents to express particular sub/meanings. The differences demonstrated in the article are to confirm a different degree of the formalization of the category in each of the natural codes compared here. The idea of taking the local dialect of Puńsk into consideration results from a clearly visible influence of Polish and Lithuanian on the traditional dialectal system. In consequence, the dialectal system of exponents to express the meanings within the semantic category of definiteness/indefiniteness keeps a high degree of the traditional exponents specialization on one hand, but on the other hand, a low degree of specialization is being ascribed to some forms borrowed from Lithuanian (as a consequence of the Polish language influence), which results from the bilingualism of the Lithuanians living in Poland.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2015 Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl
• Date:
  2015.11.24
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives; No 11 (2011); 81-96;
  2392-2397
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Relation: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/cs.2011.004/1161
• Subject:
  contrastive studies; interlanguage; semantic category of definiteness/indefiniteness; Lithuanian; Polish; Lithuanian local dialect of Puńsk in Poland
• Identifier: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/cs.2011.004 ;
  10.11649/cs.2011.004
• Data provider:
  ISS PAS Journals
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text