Adam Przepiórkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 842631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Przepiórkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Przepiórkowski |
| SIGNATURE | PRZEPIÓRKOWSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Computer Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4398-2636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prenominal Adverbs, or Apparent Selectional Violations in Coordination
A robust generalization about coordinate structures is that X and Y may be conjoined in position P if and only if each of X and Y alone may occur in P. In particular, different grammatical categories (e.g., the NP a Republican and the AdjP proud of it) may be coordinated in a position that allows for either (e.g., Pat is [a Republican and proud of it]; Sag et al. 1985). Apparent violations of this generalization are sometimes taken as evidence fo…
Coordination and binary branching
In "Subordination and Binary Branching", a recent (2023) Syntax paper, Ad Neeleman and colleagues proposed a new analysis of subordination. The main aim of this paper is to refute that analysis, using data from the coordination of unlike categories and unlike grammatical functions. Additionally, building on Neeleman et al.'s observations about the arbitrarily -ary-not just binary-nature of coordination, I sketch a more Minimalist approach to subo…
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated
Bruening and Al Khalaf (2020) deny the possibility of coordination of unlike categories. They use three mechanisms to reanalyze such coordination as involving same categories: conjunction reduction, super-categories, and empty heads. We show that their proposal leaves many cases of unlike category coordination unaccounted for, and we point out various methodological, technical, and empirical problems that it faces. We conclude that the so-called …
Coordination of unlike grammatical cases (and unlike categories)
It is often claimed that conjuncts in coordinate structures must be alike in various ways, in particular, that they should have the same syntactic category and the same grammatical case, if any. This article aims to refute such claims. On the basis of data from Polish, Estonian, and other languages, it demonstrates that there is no universal requirement that conjuncts be alike. Any appearances of such a requirement result from the fact that each …
Predicative Adverbs
This squib argues that adverbs can act as primary predicates. In Polish, a relatively large class of adverbs are frequently used in predicative constructions when the subject of predication is an InfP (infinitival phrase) or a CP referring to abstract objects: event kinds or facts. This requirement of a purely verbal rather than nominal subject of predication is the main difference between predicative adverbs and predicative adjectives, explainin…
Walenty
The paper presents a new valency dictionary of Polish, developed by the Linguistic Engineering Group at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The dictionary, called Walenty, while still under development, is already (as of late 2016) the biggest and most detailed valency dictionary of Polish, the only one which fully integrates syntax, semantics (not only selectional preferences, but also semantic roles) and phraseology. The size and the degree of prec…
On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish “Semantic Syntax” tradition
On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish Semantic Syntax traditionThe aim of this paper is to examine the understanding of the Argument-Adjunct Distinction within the Polish Semantic Syntax (SS) tradition, associated with the name of Stanisław Karolak and presented in the nominally syntactic volume of the Grammar of contemporary Polish (Pol. Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego; Topolińska, 1984), especially in Karolak (1984) and Gro…
Phraseology in two Slavic valency dictionaries
Phraseological components of valency dictionaries for two West Slavic languages are presented, namely, of the PDT-Vallex dictionary for Czech and of the Walenty dictionary for Polish. Both dictionaries are corpus-based, albeit in different ways. Both are machine-readable and employable by syntactic parsers and generators. The paper compares the expressive power of the phraseological subformalisms of these dictionaries, discusses their limitations…
Koordynacja leksykalno-semantyczna w systemie współczesnej polszczyzny (na materiale Narodowego Korpusu Języka Polskiego)
The aim of this paper is to refute the thesis by Zygmunt Saloni that structures such as “Kto, co i komu dał?” (“Who gave what to whom?”, literally: “Who, what and whom gave?”) do not belong to the system of contemporary Polish and that their conjunctionless counterparts (here: “Kto co komu dał?”, literally: “Who what whom gave?”) should be used instead. We show that the discussed phenomenon, called lexico-semantic coordination, is frequent in the…
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated
Bruening and Al Khalaf (2020) deny the possibility of coordination of unlike categories. They use three mechanisms to reanalyze such coordination as involving same categories: conjunction reduction, super-categories, and empty heads. We show that their proposal leaves many cases of unlike category coordination unaccounted for, and we point out various methodological, technical, and empirical problems that it faces. We conclude that the so-called …
Coordination and binary branching
In "Subordination and Binary Branching", a recent (2023) Syntax paper, Ad Neeleman and colleagues proposed a new analysis of subordination. The main aim of this paper is to refute that analysis, using data from the coordination of unlike categories and unlike grammatical functions. Additionally, building on Neeleman et al.'s observations about the arbitrarily -ary-not just binary-nature of coordination, I sketch a more Minimalist approach to subo…
Coordination of unlike grammatical cases (and unlike categories)
It is often claimed that conjuncts in coordinate structures must be alike in various ways, in particular, that they should have the same syntactic category and the same grammatical case, if any. This article aims to refute such claims. On the basis of data from Polish, Estonian, and other languages, it demonstrates that there is no universal requirement that conjuncts be alike. Any appearances of such a requirement result from the fact that each …
Koordynacja leksykalno-semantyczna w systemie współczesnej polszczyzny (na materiale Narodowego Korpusu Języka Polskiego)
The aim of this paper is to refute the thesis by Zygmunt Saloni that structures such as “Kto, co i komu dał?” (“Who gave what to whom?”, literally: “Who, what and whom gave?”) do not belong to the system of contemporary Polish and that their conjunctionless counterparts (here: “Kto co komu dał?”, literally: “Who what whom gave?”) should be used instead. We show that the discussed phenomenon, called lexico-semantic coordination, is frequent in the…
Phraseology in two Slavic valency dictionaries
Phraseological components of valency dictionaries for two West Slavic languages are presented, namely, of the PDT-Vallex dictionary for Czech and of the Walenty dictionary for Polish. Both dictionaries are corpus-based, albeit in different ways. Both are machine-readable and employable by syntactic parsers and generators. The paper compares the expressive power of the phraseological subformalisms of these dictionaries, discusses their limitations…
Walenty
The paper presents a new valency dictionary of Polish, developed by the Linguistic Engineering Group at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The dictionary, called Walenty, while still under development, is already (as of late 2016) the biggest and most detailed valency dictionary of Polish, the only one which fully integrates syntax, semantics (not only selectional preferences, but also semantic roles) and phraseology. The size and the degree of prec…
On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish “Semantic Syntax” tradition
On the argument-adjunct distinction in the Polish Semantic Syntax traditionThe aim of this paper is to examine the understanding of the Argument-Adjunct Distinction within the Polish Semantic Syntax (SS) tradition, associated with the name of Stanisław Karolak and presented in the nominally syntactic volume of the Grammar of contemporary Polish (Pol. Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego; Topolińska, 1984), especially in Karolak (1984) and Gro…
Predicative Adverbs
This squib argues that adverbs can act as primary predicates. In Polish, a relatively large class of adverbs are frequently used in predicative constructions when the subject of predication is an InfP (infinitival phrase) or a CP referring to abstract objects: event kinds or facts. This requirement of a purely verbal rather than nominal subject of predication is the main difference between predicative adverbs and predicative adjectives, explainin…
Coordination of unlike grammatical cases (and unlike categories)
It is often claimed that conjuncts in coordinate structures must be alike in various ways, in particular, that they should have the same syntactic category and the same grammatical case, if any. This article aims to refute such claims. On the basis of data from Polish, Estonian, and other languages, it demonstrates that there is no universal requirement that conjuncts be alike. Any appearances of such a requirement result from the fact that each …
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated
Bruening and Al Khalaf (2020) deny the possibility of coordination of unlike categories. They use three mechanisms to reanalyze such coordination as involving same categories: conjunction reduction, super-categories, and empty heads. We show that their proposal leaves many cases of unlike category coordination unaccounted for, and we point out various methodological, technical, and empirical problems that it faces. We conclude that the so-called …
Prenominal Adverbs, or Apparent Selectional Violations in Coordination
A robust generalization about coordinate structures is that X and Y may be conjoined in position P if and only if each of X and Y alone may occur in P. In particular, different grammatical categories (e.g., the NP a Republican and the AdjP proud of it) may be coordinated in a position that allows for either (e.g., Pat is [a Republican and proud of it]; Sag et al. 1985). Apparent violations of this generalization are sometimes taken as evidence fo…
Coordination and binary branching
In "Subordination and Binary Branching", a recent (2023) Syntax paper, Ad Neeleman and colleagues proposed a new analysis of subordination. The main aim of this paper is to refute that analysis, using data from the coordination of unlike categories and unlike grammatical functions. Additionally, building on Neeleman et al.'s observations about the arbitrarily -ary-not just binary-nature of coordination, I sketch a more Minimalist approach to subo…
Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Language and Culture (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies (3 works)