Right-hand collocations of verbal nouns with zero formative  in Polish and Russian academic writings Cover Image

Prawostronna łączliwość rzeczowników odczasownikowych z formantem zerowym w polskich i rosyjskich tekstach naukowych
Right-hand collocations of verbal nouns with zero formative in Polish and Russian academic writings

Author(s): Zofia Czapiga
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Morphology, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: nominalisation; Russian language; Polish language; comparative grammar; collocations of verbal nouns; academic writing; stylistics

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of right-hand collocations of verbal nouns with zero formative in Polish and Russian academic writings. Nominalisation, as an implicational predicate, is a very useful tool for the sentence compression, and therefore it is widely used in academic style. Such lexical items open free space to their right for other nouns, among which Genitive case forms without a preposition are dominant. Prepositional collocations are quite diverse: do, bez, z Ng; na Na; z, za, w, między Ni; o, na Nl in Polish and с, из, для, без, от Ng; к, по Nd; на, в, под Na; с, между Ni; на, в, при Nl in Russian. In single cases the forms of Instrumental case without a preposition appear, and — in Russian texts only — the form of infinitive. The dependent elements introduce subjective, objective and attributive meanings.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 127
  • Page Range: 116-126
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish