Volume 141, Issue 3

2024

Publication date: 23.08.2024

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This publication has been supported by a grant from the Priority Research Area (Support for the publication of journals in OA (First Edition)) under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University and by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.

Cover designer: Paweł Bigos

Licence: CC BY

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Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Anna Tereszkiewicz

Editor-in-Chief Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

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An improved etymology for the Tupi-Guarani ethnonym Kagwahiva

Fernando O. de Carvalho

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 141, Issue 3, 2024, pp. 139-159

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.009.19921

The present contribution challenges the traditional etymology of the well-known ethnonym kagwahiva, which goes back to the first decades of the 20th century. It is shown that the hypothesized etymological association with the reflexes of the Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kap/*kaβ- ‘wasp’ is formally untenable. An alternative proposal is presented, supported by argumentation at phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic levels, and based on the identification of clear, yet so far, unacknowledged cognates in Old Tupi, Old Guarani and other languages within the family. A PTG etymon *-kawaip/*kawaiβ- ‘to be aggressive, prone to violence’ is tentatively proposed, and further etymologization is advanced on the grounds of formal and semantic associations to *-kaʔu ‘to drink (alcoholic beverage)’.

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Studies in tense, aspect and augment use: An unrecognized (?) timeless injunctive in Early Epic Greek. Part 2: Actual analysis

Filip De Decker

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 141, Issue 3, 2024, pp. 161-184

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.010.19922

Since West’s seminal 1898 article, it has been assumed that there were (only) four instances in epic Greek (Homer, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns) in which the injunctive (often called an unaugmented indicative in the commentaries) could be interpreted as having a timeless (or omnitemporal) meaning. In the second part of the article, I will argue and show that there could be more of these injunctive forms than West originally argued for. I will also analyze several other instances in which an injunctive has been transmitted, instances in which it refers to a background action or an event in a remote past, and argue that some injunctive forms indeed describe the timeless habits of the gods, while others are not timeless, but refer to actions in a remote or even mythical past, or describe background actions; moreover, even some indicative present forms could conceal older timeless injunctive forms (without arguing that the indicative forms should be altered, however). In all these instances I will also investigate and describe the aspectual stems, as well as show that their use can be explained by the distinction perfective – imperfective, which agrees with what we would find in Attic Greek and is not controlled by the metre.

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Antoni Paryski’s Wielki ilustrowany angielskopolski i polsko-angielski słownik… (1899): Facts and myths

Mirosława Podhajecka

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 141, Issue 3, 2024, pp. 185-204

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.011.19923

Antoni Paryski, one of the most successful Polish publishers in the United States, was also a bilingual lexicographer. Among other things, he undertook the compilation of Wielki ilustrowany angielsko-polski i polsko-angielski słownik… [The great illustrated English-Polish and Polish-English dictionary…], asserting that it would cover as many as 250,000 headwords. The dictionary appeared in fascicles from May 1899 but was discontinued soon thereafter. Albeit none of the few fascicles published is available today, one page of the first fascicle was reprinted in Paryski’s weekly Ameryka, thus allowing for a preliminary assessment of the quality of the endeavour. Drawing on data culled from issues of Ameryka (1898−1899), this paper also aims at reconstructing the story of the dictionary.

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Phonotactic and morphonotactic influences on the (a)synchronicity of consonant clusters in Polish

Geoffrey Schwartz, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Radosław Święciński

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 141, Issue 3, 2024, pp. 205-217

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.012.19924

A pilot speech production experiment combined articulatory data obtained using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), along with acoustic measures, to investigate the effects of cluster size (CC vs. CCC) and morpheme boundaries on consonant cluster synchronicity for five speakers of Polish. We found that being placed in a larger cluster leads to less synchronous productions of two-consonant sequences. We also found, surprisingly, greater synchronicity for clusters spanning a morpheme boundary than for the same cluster within a morpheme. Our findings may be interpreted from a listener-oriented perspective in which speech production is sensitive to perceptual considerations.

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Słowa kluczowe: etymology, Tupi-Guarani, ethnonyms, Kagwahiva, Epic Greek, verbal morpho-syntax, injunctive, augment, tempus-aspect, Paryski, illustrated dictionary, Ameryka, Polish Americans, analysis, Polish phonotactics, morphonotactics, EMA, cluster synchronicity, Net Auditory Distance