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Replication Data for: Accusative of Negation in ‘Borderland’ Polish
No full textThese are the data for a journal article on 'Accusative of Negation in 'Borderland' Polish'. The abstract of the article is below. The data consist of the annotated list of tokens of accusative vs. genitive of negation (=GenNeg.txt), excerpted manually from relevant sources documenting south-eastern 'Borderland' Polish as used in the city of Lviv until WWII. Three types of sources have been used for this study: i.) the surviving and published scripts of a weekly popular radio programme of Polish Radio Lwów ('Wesola Lwowska Fala'), mainly pre-WWII, conducted in the dialect (1933-1945), for a few of which the accompanying recordings have been recovered too; ii.) a recovered pre-WWII film production with dialogues predominantly in the dialect (1939); iii.) written texts in the dialect from Lviv-based satirical magazines, predominantly pre-WWI (1882-1917). The sources and the annotation of the tokens are detailed in the accompanying description of the data (=00_readme_file_for_GenNeg.txt). The tokens were annotated for various factors, pertaining to the case-marked noun, to the verb and to the type of clause. The aim was to establish the correlation between these factors and the selection of dialectal accusative vs. Standard Polish genitive of negation.Here is the abstract of the article:
The paper aims at offering a descriptive analysis of case under sentential negation in the pre-World War II urban dialect of Lviv, one of the key historical south-eastern ‘Borderland’ varieties of Polish which developed under strong Ukrainian influence. In this dialect, the direct internal argument in negated sentences could surface either in the genitive or accusative case. This is in contrast to other varieties of Polish, including Standard Polish, where it must be in the genitive. A distributional analysis of the data available suggests that the variation was not random. It was conditioned by the semantics of the object: The accusative was available if the noun phrase was definite. The genitive was not subject to any constraints. I argue that this represents a mixed grammar of case under negation: the Standard Polish model as well as a dialectal model. The latter emerged under the influence of Ukrainian. This mixed model is ultimately based on the availability of two types of negation phrase in Lviv ‘Borderland’ Polish, one without any scope features as in Standard Polish, and one with a negated quantificational scope feature as in East Slavonic
Replication Data for 'Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian'
No full textThese are the replication data for part of a journal article on 'Subject pro-drop and past-tense auxiliary clitics in South-Western Ukrainian'. The abstract of the article is below. The data consist of annotated strings of continuous text in Standard Ukrainian (=ProDrop_SU.txt) and in South-Western Ukrainian Dialect (=ProDrop_SWU.txt), with 460 parsed predications each for Standard Ukrainian and South-Western Ukrainian dialect. The sources and the annotation are detailed in the accompanying description of the data (=00_readme_file_for_ProDrop.txt). The aim is to identify the predications that allow for subject pro-drop, to correlate its occurrence with the main morpho-syntactic features of the predicate (tense, person, number), and to compare its frequency in South-Western Ukrainian Dialect versus Standard Ukrainian.Here is the abstract of the article: South-Western Ukrainian dialects have retained the option of auxiliary clitics in the formation of the past tense. At the same time, they have past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics as in Northern Ukrainian dialects, and in Standard Ukrainian based on South-Eastern dialects. A sample corpus study suggests that South-Western Ukrainian also shows a higher frequency of subject pro-drop than Standard Ukrainian. The South-Western Ukrainian pattern presents the precise mirror image of the same two features in South-Eastern ‘Borderland’ Polish. Here, the dialect adopted the option of past-tense forms without auxiliary clitics, next to those with them as in Standard Polish. At the same time, it shows a higher frequency of non-pro-drop than Standard Polish. I argue that these matching facts are the result of long-standing language contact that worked simultaneously in two directions: the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Ukrainian pattern under Polish influence, as well as the increase in the use of an existing dialectal Polish pattern under Ukrainian influence. As a result, both dialects show the same variation between past-tense forms with auxiliary clitics and without them, and they have mutually converging tendencies in subject pro-drop – the Ukrainian dialect adapting towards Polish pro-drop, and the Polish dialect towards Ukrainian non-pro-drop. The bi-directionality of influence in the SWU dialectal areal goes beyond ‘classical’, i.e. unidirectional language-contact scenarios
A causal approach to transitivity
Get PDFThe present thesis presents a causal approach to transitivity and proposes a model of transitivity based on the view that a single event is a single ‘causal impact’, which consists of a single causation and a single effect. It defines semantic intransitivity as events where the effect is borne by and expressed through the actor and semantic transitivity as events where the effect is borne by and expressed through the patient. It finds evidence for this definition in the phenomenon of ‘selective specification’ of action or result by verbs with actor and patient. Furthermore, it proposes that the verb eat has dual event structures, intransitive and transitive, and uses a Web data test to test and confirm this hypothesis
Information structure in Georgian
Get PDFIn this thesis I investigate the realisation of information-structural categories in Georgian and propose novel accounts of how they are expressed syntactically and prosodically. On the basis of my findings I present a first detailed model of the relationships between syntax, prosody and information structure in Georgian in the Optimality-Theoretic and Lexical-Functional Grammar frameworks. The proposed accounts are situated within an original approach to the relationship between information structure and sentence form, according to which information-structural features cross-linguistically are reflected most closely in the association of individual words with the heads of prosodic phrases, permissible configurations of which are in addition articulated in terms of novel prominence-structural constraints. In addition to Georgian, I show that this approach is compatible with data, both from other ‘stress’ languages like English, and from ‘alignment’ languages such as French.
The accounts presented engage with a number of studies, and varying analyses, of the syntactic and prosodic reflexes of information structure in Georgian presented in recent years. Whilst the new syntactic account presented captures a range of available evidence not fully reflected in previous models, the prosodic account is based on new data from a production experiment which employs an alternative methodology to those of previous studies. In addition to supporting the compatibility of Georgian with the prominence-based approach, these indicate that ip phrase heads in Georgian associated with discourse-prominence are aligned with their right boundary, rather than with the left, as recently proposed by Féry (2013).
The proposed prominence-based account is reflected in the formal models presented, within which I accommodate both the Georgian and data from other languages. In the case of the LFG model, modifications are proposed to the architecture, including to p(rosodic)-structure to permit the representation of and reference to the heads of prosodic phrases
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Talking taboos: the personal over the political? Contemporary Polish playwriting: Theme and dramatic technique in selected modern Polish plays
Get PDFThe focus of this thesis is contemporary Polish playwriting after Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004. From a broad reading of plays by many new writers, four playwrights were selected for study on the basis of prominence and artistic merit: Paweł Demirski, Dorota Masłowska, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and Przemys ław Wojcieszek. Their plays were studied as texts and in performance, and twelve main plays became the focus of closer analysis. The thesis identifies and examines three major concurrent themes in the works of these playwrights. Remembering versus forgetting the past is discussed through the lens of selected aspects of memory studies, including Nora's lieux de mémoire, Hirsch’s postmemory and Assman's mnemohistory. The playwrights are shown to share an endorsement of the de-politicisation of collective memory and to advocate a cessation of the passing down of trauma to post-war generations. The human body is highlighted as another concurrent thematic concern and is illuminated by certain tenets of Catholic doctrine as well as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The playwrights' rejection of the tabooisation of the body is demonstrated and the shared notion of the body as both sentient and unifying is exemplified. Social marginalisation is examined as the final concern, with an emphasis on the notion of the 'other', particularly in relation to socio-economic status, sexuality, and religious beliefs. The plays are shown to support and promote a rejection of the myth of homogeneity in favour of openness to diversity. Major dramatic techniques are then closely examined. It is demonstrated that the plays share traits with Lehmann's theory of postdramatic theatre, including a rejection of Aristotelian unities. Key commonalities are evidenced, particularly comedy, bad language, intertextualities with the outside world, and an engagement with Polish social realities. The playwrights' approach to the spectator as a socio-political being is shown to be of paramount importanc
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Beyond the burning centre of cataclysm: Reception of Eastern Europe in poetry and criticism of mid-1960s Britain
Get PDFThis doctoral thesis explores how, from the mid-1960s, the influx of Eastern European poetry in translation galvanised specific developments in the Anglophone lyric and literary criticism of late modernism. Its emphasis falls on the British literary landscape, while the time frame in which I set my discussion extends from the Thaw of 1956 (the period characterised by lessening Soviet censorship and limited political and cultural liberalisation following Joseph Stalin’s death) to the mid-1970s. On many occasions, critics have noted that the mid-1960s saw the first explicit and intensified interest in poetry from beyond the Iron Curtain, but little attempt has been made to detect how this specific type of resonance manifested itself in the action, collaborations, and new initiatives characteristic of this time of stark political divisions and the impact these divisions had on the perception of Eastern Europe as cultural periphery. Drawing on archival research and using tools borrowed from translation studies, I argue that the boom of translations from Eastern Europe coincided with and contributed to changes in the printing market, while what used to be known as literary ‘influence’ begun to happen beyond the written page. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the role of poets and critics started to change and this period saw an exceptional number of collaborative efforts, such as the establishment of new magazines; small presses; producing broadcasts; the commissioning of translations for new anthologies, and the organisation of the
first international literary festivals. All of these initiatives had a transformative effect on post-war British poetry. Drawing connections between otherwise scattered points on the map of literary history, I trace the affinities which English-speaking authors felt towards writing from Eastern Europe and explore the role and function (often abstract and symbolic) that the region, too often presented as homogenous entity, played or was hoped to play or was hoped to play in the formation of the new poetic and critical idiom that – as critic, impresario and editor Al Alvarez put it – would offer a ‘new kind of seriousness’ and galvanise British poetry to go beyond ‘the gentility principle’. This type of inquiry is as much about literary history as it is about the methodology of discussing literary resonance, global modernisms, and comparative criticism. It is important to highlight that cultural transfer, circulation, and mediation can often be indirect, vague, and imprecise. I therefore approach my materials and the commentaries of English-speaking critics and poets on Eastern Europe as narratives constructed in a given time and responding to specific needs, rather than as comprehensive introductions or reliable sources. It, therefore, important to highlight that excerpts from literary criticism from the 1960s are not endorsements of the visions critics projected on Eastern Europe in the past, but the very subject of my analysis and curiosity. This upfront clarification is crucial as throughout this thesis I will show that despite whilst the early
reception of newly translated poets was immensely enthusiastic, it has left the English-speaking audience with a ‘flattened’ image of Eastern Europe.
The first chapter explores matters such as resonance, circulation, and imagining in early commentaries on Eastern Europe, sketching out the general background and seeking patterns in the representation of Eastern Europe in the 1960s. The second chapter looks at the role of Modern Poetry in Translation magazine (MPT), ideas of ‘translatability’ in the Cold War era, and the time-specific, little discussed issue of striving for ‘literalness’ as a mode of translation that would allow a deeper emotional connection with the historical drama of post-war Europe. The third chapter moves on to examine proxy-witnessing and nuclear criticism in Sylvia Plath’s poetry, linking her fascination with the impossibility of voicing to survivalist narratives and characteristic of the 1960s’ interest in Holocaust poetry. The last chapter focuses on editorial fluidity, brokenness, and the fascination with translation in the absence of a source text in Ted Hughes’ Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow cycle. The selection and contextualisation of the poets and critics in my corpus centres around Alvarez, Daniel Weissbort, and Hughes and clearly does not exhaust the subject. Rather, it invites us to examine broader literary-historical issues such as brokenness, deconstruction, the ethics of speech and silence, and revision, all of which can be seen in the nexus of transcultural connections and reflected in creative works that evince shared sensitivities. By asking what happened in the world of mid-1960s English poetry that meant that the translation of unfamiliar lyric from Eastern Europe could suddenly be expected to fill the gap of seriousness, this thesis hopes to enlarge our understanding of the dialogue between the divided halves of Europe in the mid-1960s; the limits of language and translatability; and the paradoxically reintegrative return of the modernist, broken, and ‘literal’ idiom
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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