Some Reflections on Partitive Genitive in Contemporary Polish and its Equivalents in German Cover Image

Einige Bemerkungen zum partitiven Genitiv im heutigen Polnisch und zu seinen deutschsprachigen Äquivalenten / Some Reflections on Partitive Genitive in Contemporary Polish and its Equivalents in German
Some Reflections on Partitive Genitive in Contemporary Polish and its Equivalents in German

Author(s): Ireneusz Gaworski
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
Keywords: category of grammatical case; partitive genitive; accusative; syntax; Polish-German contrastive studies

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this paper is so-called Partitive Genitive (PG) as a verbal compliment, which is one oft the most characteristic syntactic constructions of the Polish language and of the others Slavic languages. PG is typical of spoken language and compatibel only with restricted class of perfective verbs. Different frames and a short characteristic of the subject in the Polish linguistic literature were presented. Reflections in the main part of the article are limited to a selected morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomenon of PG with perfective and imperfective verbs. The possible equivalents of Polish PG in German were also presented.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 43-69
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: German