Methods and problems of comparative linguistics research. Case study: predicate nominative in French and Polish Cover Image

Les démarches et problèmes à résoudre dans les études comparatives — la prédication nominale en français et en polonais
Methods and problems of comparative linguistics research. Case study: predicate nominative in French and Polish

Author(s): Grażyna Vetulani
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Polish language; French language; predicate nominatives; information encoding; electronic dictionaries; lexicon grammar; comparative studies

Summary/Abstract: Observations collected in this paper result from our research on predicate nominatives in French and Polish. We focus on: 1) definition of the concept of predication in French versus Polish language linguistic tradition, 2) methodological issues concerning data acquisition and description procedures; traditional versus computer-assisted methods, 3) evaluation of reference corpora used for acquisition of predicative nouns in both concerned languages, 4) format of lexicographical descriptions of predicative expressions.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 340-351
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French