Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.50.1.9

AC-rzecz biorąc v. AC-mówiąc in Polish: A Corpus Driven Study of Two Quasi-Participle Constructions

Jarosław Wiliński orcid.org/0000-0002-3136-6529 ; University of Siedlce

Abstract

Applying the perspective of Construction Grammar and the corpus-based methodology termed Distinctive-Collexeme Analysis, this study aims to ascertain adverbial complements (ACs) that show a marked preference for either the AC-rzecz biorąc-construction ‘AC- thing taking-construction’ (e.g. historycznie rzecz biorąc ‘historically speaking’; verbatim: ‘historically thing taking’) or the AC-mówiąc-construction ‘AC-speaking-construction’ (e.g. ogólnie mówiąc ‘generally speaking’) in the Polish language. Drawing upon data retrieved from The National Corpus of Polish (NKJP), the findings reveal that these constructions display a strong tendency to co-occur with particular ACs that convey a range of meanings and serve different functions in discourse. In addition, the study reports that both constructions are predominantly observed in journalism, are used commonly in quasi-spoken texts, occur frequently in literature, and are relatively rare in Internet sources, scientific-didactic texts, and conversational contexts.

Keywords

quasi-participle construction; NKJP; construction grammar; distinctive collexeme analysis; Fisher exact test

Hrčak ID:

328012

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/328012

Publication date:

30.12.2024.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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