O staropolskich imiesłowach dociekliwie i odkrywczo
Old Polish Participles: An Inquisitive and Insightful Look

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the curious syntactic behaviour of certain uninflected participles (part. praes. act./adv.) in Old Polish. Examples are drawn from medieval and Renaissance Old Polish texts. Comparing the Latin text and the Old Polish syntactical equivalents, as well as taking into account the historical processes connected with the adverbialization of participles, the authors conclude that the forms under discussion could assume: the role of a subject or a passive function. The authors present this unusual and by scholars previously unnoticed usage of participles in Old Polish against the background of a critical analysis of previous treatments of the subject, at the same time pleading for greater terminological precision and systematic consideration of the broader Slavic background.

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