Przymiotnik relacyjny w świetle wyników analiz korpusowych – ujęcie z punktu widzenia gramatyki konstrukcji
Relational adjective in light of corpus analyses – a construction grammar approach

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses relational adjective as a construction. The analysis focuses on the productivity and strength of its constructional scheme. The aim is to present the results of a corpus analysis that tests the hypothesis of specific tendencies in the textual frequency of relational adjectives in contemporary Polish. The study disproves the claim that relational adjectives displace other equivalent constructions with similar meaning over time. It also demonstrates that the strength of the constructional scheme of the adjective strongly correlates with a type of contextual meaning and reaches high levels, for instance in the case of material and genetic meaning. A specific way of construal, characteristic of relational adjective, has been indicated as the reason for this correlation. It turns out to be particularly consistent with specific types of contextual meanings, while in other contexts relational adjective loses to other constructions.

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