Cybermycha, full wersja, poboczny boss: angielskie półkalki i konstrukcje hybrydalne w potocznej polszczyźnie użytkowników komputerów
Cybermycha, full wersja, poboczny boss: English semi-calques and hybryd formations in informal Polish of computer users

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to describe and analyse English semi-calques and hybrid formations in informal Polish of computer users. The study is based on the corpus collected by the author; it consists of short informal texts taken from 32 selected Internet forums. The paper discusses single-word and phrasal semi-calques (exact and inexact), based on probable English models, as well as hybrid formations, created already in Polish, without the existence of direct English models. In addition, the paper focuses on various theoretical problems, such as those connected with distinguishing between semi-calques and calques or between exact and inexact semi-calques; some possible solutions are also offered.

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