Grzegorz Drożdż

List of John Benjamins publications in which Grzegorz Drożdż is involved.

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Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.

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Drożdż, Grzegorz 2022 Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva (eds.), pp. 251–273 | Chapter

This chapter formulates a proposal for dealing with two of the notorious problems of countability and uncountability in English: the problem of nouns changing their grammatical properties from count to mass and mass to count, and establishing the regularities of such changes. On the basis of the… read more

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2016 Introduction: Theoretical, methodological, and practical problems in the study of lexicogrammar Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2016 From the meaning of the concrete noun to its grammatical property and back Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 95–120 | Article

The property of countability and uncountability is one of important characteristics of English nouns. At the same time, it is an issue of considerable controversy. On the one hand, Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 334) maintain that many nouns can be used with count and mass interpretations. On the… read more

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2012 14. Conceptualizing the present through construal aspects: The case of the English temporal constructions Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 305–328 | Article

Since the grammar of every language can divide temporal reality in a different manner, this chapter aims to present a method of arriving at the understanding of one of its dimensions – the present – encoded in the structures of English. These structures consist of eleven temporal and aspectual… read more