Wojciech Lewandowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wojciech Lewandowski plays a role.
2018 A typological approach to the encoding of motion events The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 45–74 | Chapter
This study reports on findings from an elicited narrative task in which native speakers of three genetically different languages, German, Polish, and Spanish, were asked to describe motion scenes from an extract of Chaplin’s City Lights. The results show that linguistic typology has an important… read more
2018 Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Article
We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy’s (1991, 2000) typology of macro-events and Slobin’s (1991, 1996) “Thinking for speaking” hypothesis.We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed… read more
2016 Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 185–208 | Article
We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy’s (1991, 2000) typology of macro-events and Slobin’s (1991, 1996) “Thinking for speaking” hypothesis. We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed… read more
2014 The locative alternation in verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages: A corpus study of Spanish and Polish Studies in Language 38:4, pp. 864–895 | Article
I propose a comparative analysis of the locative alternation in Polish and Spanish. I adopt a constructional theory of argument structure (Goldberg (1995)), according to which the locative alternation is an epiphenomenon of the compatibility of a single verb meaning with two different… read more
2012 19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish: A third lexicalisation pattern? Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 437–458 | Article
This chapter explores from a typological and construction grammar perspective the use of locative vs directional PPs as alternative ways of expressing spatial endpoints in Polish. I argue, against Nikitina (2008, 2010), that the locative PP motion construction (LPPMC) represents a verb-framed… read more