Linguistica Silesiana, vol. 31

Linguistica Silesiana is an international journal of linguistic studies. It will carry articles in English, French, German and occasionally in other languages. We welcome articles on the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change.

CONTENTS – SOMMAIRE – INHALTSVERZEICHNIS G. D r o ż d ż: Scope as a cognitive tool in tense analysis E. B o g d a n o w s k a - J a k u b o w s k a: Party rituals revisited M.A. S t ę p i e ń: Imágenes mentales y conceptos: su relación en la fraseología somática hispano-polaca N. K u d r n á č o v á: On pragmatic and cognitive processes in meaning variation M. K u c z o k: Between language and reality: metaphorical and metonymical conceptualizations of God in the New Testament P. L i g ę z a: Minimalist accounts of antecedent-contained deletion constructions A. K i j a k: Intrusive liquids in English I. K i d a: The emergence of subordinate clauses in Old English from paratactically conjoined structures K. W a r c h a ł: Taking stance across languages: high-value modal verbs of epistemic necessity and inference in English and Polish linguistics research articles J. S t a w n i c k a, A. Ł y d a: Polish achievements with expressions of duration and their terminal recategorisation C. J i n g: The analysis of the semantic bias in partially-directed compound words of Modern Chinese C. L a c h u r: ????????? ??????????? ? ?????????????? ????????? ? ???????? ?????: ???????????-?????????????? ????? J. T a r s a: „???? ????????” – ?????????????? ?????? ??????? ????????????? P. M a m e t: Changing patterns of Opel branding policy – a linguistic analysis A. Ł y d a, A. J a c k i e w i c z, K. W a r c h a ł: Agentless structures in interpreter’s output: Looking into the gender factor A. W o j t a s z e k: What do we study when we study the use of borrowings in advertisements? M. Z a b a w a: The influence of English on the Polish language of Internet message boards: investigating the role of individual differences and the context A. Ś w i ą t e k: Acquisition of English article system by Polish learners in different proficiency groups J. L a t k o w s k a: Conceptualization through the lens of language: Implications for research into Polish-English bilingualism A. Ś l ę z a k - Ś w i a t, M. S. W y s o c k a: The neural bases of fossilization