scholarly journals English loans in everyday conversational Polish. A corpus study

2019 ◽  
Vol LXXV (75) ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Jerzy Tomaszczyk

The purpose of the study was to gauge the extent to which early 21st-century general Polish, spoken and written, was saturated with English lexical material. English lexical loans extracted from an over 58-hour recording of everyday conversational Polish were analysed with the use of the NKJP corpus tools (nkjp.pl). The findings are broadly consistent with the results of previous, micro-corpus-based research in that English lexical influence on the turn-of-the-millennium Polish appears to have been much less extensive than is commonly believed. Streszczenie Zapożyczenia angielskie z ponad 58 godzin polskich rozmów codziennych poddano analizie korpusowej (nkjp.pl) w celu ustalenia stopnia nasycenia anglicyzmami polszczyzny ogólnej w odmianie mówionej i pisanej. Wyniki są zgodne z ustaleniami wcześniejszych badań, w których korzystano z mikro-korpusów: anglicyzmów w polszczyźnie ogólnej przełomu tysiącleci było znacznie mniej niż się często sadzi.

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Heier ◽  
A. Lee Gurley

On January 26, 1983, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) announced that it would require all railroads under its regulatory jurisdiction to change from Retirement-Replacement-Betterment (RRB) accounting, to a more theoretically sound depreciation accounting for matching revenues and expenses. The change was needed because RRB did not allow for the recapture of track investment, leaving the railroads with limited capital to replace aging track lines. Over the previous three decades, it had become painfully obvious to everyone that the industry's economic woes were the result of archaic accounting procedures that lacked harmony with the rest of American accounting standards, but the ICC was reluctant to change until new tax legislation in the early 1980s forced the issue. The decision was a culmination of a debate that started in the mid-1950s when Arthur Andersen, with the help of the securities industry, began an effort to harmonize railroad and industry standards using arguments that mirror those supporting the international accounting harmonization efforts of the early 21st century.


Linguistics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543-1579
Author(s):  
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras

AbstractThis article discusses the diachronic development of the Spanish multifunctional formula en plan (with its variant en plan de, literally ‘in plan (of)’ but usually equivalent to English like). The article has two main aims: firstly, to describe the changes that the formula has undergone since its earliest occurrences as a marker in the nineteenth century up to the early 21st century. The diachronic study evinces a process of grammaticalization in three steps: from noun to clause adverbial and then to discourse marker. Secondly, to conduct a contrastive analysis between en plan (de) and the English markers like and kind of/kinda so as to shed new light on the potential existence of a universal pathway of grammaticalization in the emergence of discourse markers.


Author(s):  
S. G. Lakkis ◽  
Pablo O. Canziani ◽  
Joaquín O. Rodriguez ◽  
Adrián E. Yuchechen ◽  
Alan O'Neill ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 915-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhui Chen ◽  
Lina Jansen ◽  
Adam Gondos ◽  
Katharina Emrich ◽  
Bernd Holleczek ◽  
...  

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