Open AccessNarzędnik afirmacji w wybranych językach słowiańskich
Author(s) -
Marcin Grygiel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studia z filologii polskiej i słowiańskiej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2392-2435
pISSN - 0081-7090
DOI - 10.11649/sfps.2012.008
Subject(s) - slavic languages , negation , linguistics , genitive case , completeness (order theory) , predicate (mathematical logic) , de facto , psychology , philosophy , mathematics , noun , computer science , political science , law , mathematical analysis , programming language
Instrumental of affirmation in selected Slavic languagesIn the present article I argue that apart from the genitive of negation, Slavic also makes use of the instrumental of affirmation – but its recognition requires a more sophisticated, function-oriented analytic model, firmly grounded in the real linguistic usage and sensitive to semantic conditioning – such as cognitive semantics. The discussion offered seems to suggest that the Slavic instrumental is an inherently affirmative case, as opposed to genitive which has specialized in expressing partition, disjunction and negation, e.g. compare Pol. ciasto z orzechami/ Srb. kolač sa orasima ‘a cake with nuts INSTR’ vs. Pol. ciasto bez orzechów/ Srb. kolač bez oraha ‘a cake without nuts GEN’. Furthermore, because of its semantic properties, the instrumental case is attracted by positive contexts and acts as an intensifier of affirmation. Slavic instrumentals can be classified, on the basis of the positive meanings they imply, as instrumentals of completeness, instrumentals of conjunction and instrumentals of existence. The proposed semantic classification becomes more refined when image-schemas of CONTAINER, PATH, SURFACE and conceptual metaphors related to the physical relation of COVERAGE are included in the model.