Los adjetivos de inmediatez temporal en español y sus equivalentes en polaco
The Adjectives of TEMPORAL IMMEDIACY in Spanish and their Equivalents in Polish

Summary/Abstract: The concept of IMMEDIACY can refer to a relationship of spatial or temporal character. From the temporal point of view, it is the expression of a very close posteriority of an event. It is hard to identify precisely the entities that express the temporal immediacy. Dictionaries very often do not differentiate the uses referring to either type of immediacy. In this paper the proposed classification is based on the theory of classes of objects and all kinds of possible contexts in which the adjectives are used are studied. The paper discusses the semantic and syntactic properties of two Spanish adjectives: inmediato and inminente, following a previous analysis of the adjectives próximo and cercano. The adjective inmediato has both temporal and spatial uses. In its temporal uses it indicates a relationship between two abstract elements. Whenever its second argument position is not saturated, it refers directly to the reported moment or an event happening in the reported moment. Some of the uses indicate anteriority. The adjective inminente lacks spatial uses its polysemy is far less complex. The final results of the analysis can contribute to better understand how these adjectives work. They could also be incorporated in machine translation systems.

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