Grammatical forms of autosemantic parts of speech
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Formy gramatyczne autosemantycznych części mowy w językach polskim I ukraińskim
Grammatical forms of autosemantic parts of speech in Polish and Ukrainian

Author(s): Mykoła Lesiuk
Subject(s): Semantics
Published by: Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Keywords: grammatical forms; common and differentiating forms; masculine personal and feminine non-personal forms; parts of speech; noun stems and case endings; declension and cases; historical reasons;

Summary/Abstract: The author of this article analyses the common and differentiating grammatical forms ofautosemantic parts of speech in the related Polish and Ukrainian languages, while examining thecauses of differences between them. Relying on many years’ of his lecturing experience gained ata higher education institution, he focuses primarily on the issues that are the most complicatedfor Ukrainian students when studying Polish. One of the major differences is the presence ofmasculine personal forms of each part of speech in Polish. Hence, the forms are discussed in theinflection/conjugation systems of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, and verbs. Historicalreasons for the selected grammatical phenomena play an important role in the article.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 27-38
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish