Verbal Suffixes -ну-/-ną- in Contemporary Russian and Polish languages Cover Image

Specyfika semantyczna czasowników z przyrostkiem -ну-/-ną- w języku rosyjskim i polskim
Verbal Suffixes -ну-/-ną- in Contemporary Russian and Polish languages

Author(s): Joanna Woch
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: comparative linguistics; Russian; Polish; word formation;semantics;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate semantic similarities and differences between Polish and Russian verbs with suffixes -ну-/-ną-. The analyzed affixes form semantically neutral semelfactive verbs in standard Polish and Russian. The main differ-ence can be observed in the spoken language, in which suffixes -ну-/-ną- form expressive semelfactive verbs. The study shows that the Russian suffix -ну- is more productive as it can be added to almost any durative verb stem and it is part of another suffix -ану-, which does not have an equivalent in Polish. In Polish the expressive character of -ną-verbs can be achieved secondarily as a result of a metaphorization and metonymyzation of semantically neutral verbs.

  • Issue Year: 1/2020
  • Issue No: XXII
  • Page Range: 45-54
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish