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INTERSUBJECTIFICATION IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR: REFLECTING ON ENGLISH AND POLISH REFLEXIVES

Publication date: 30.10.2017

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 3, pp. 229 - 245

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.17.016.7090

Authors

Henryk Kardela
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
, Poland
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INTERSUBJECTIFICATION IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR: REFLECTING ON ENGLISH AND POLISH REFLEXIVES

Abstract

The paper provides a cognitive grammar analysis of reflexivization phenomena in English and Polish. Three separate although related claims are made: (i) underlying reflexiviza­tion phenomena is the intersubjectification process which involves the so-called refer­ence point relationship; (ii) the intersubjectification process takes place in the Current Discourse Space CDS (Langacker 2008), whereby the degree of the antecedent’s ac­cessibility for the reflexive pronoun is established; (iii) while in Polish, the antecedent’s accessibility is closely linked to the detransitivization process, in English, it is determined by the accessibility hierarchy in the sense of Kuno (1987).

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 3, pp. 229 - 245

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

INTERSUBJECTIFICATION IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR: REFLECTING ON ENGLISH AND POLISH REFLEXIVES

English:

INTERSUBJECTIFICATION IN COGNITIVE GRAMMAR: REFLECTING ON ENGLISH AND POLISH REFLEXIVES

Authors

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
Poland

Published at: 30.10.2017

Article status: Open

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Henryk Kardela (Author) - 100%

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