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A Concise Polish Grammar by Ron F. Feldstein © SEELRC 2001 1 A Concise Polish Grammar Ronald F. Feldstein Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Polish Sounds and Spelling Chapter 2. Major Types of Morphophonemic Alternations Chapter 3. The Polish Noun Chapter 4. Polish Adjectival Declension and Comparison. Notes on the Adverb. Chapter 5. The Polish Numeral Chapter 6. Polish Pronouns Chapter 7. The Polish Verb: Conjugation and Notes on Aspect 2 Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge the help of Charles Townsend, of Princeton University, and Frank Gladney, of the University of Illinois, who patiently read through earlier versions of this grammar and pointed out many errors and inconsistencies in my exposition. In fact, they provided so many helpful and valuable suggestions that it would be impossible to offer separate attributions for each instance where their ideas have made their way into the final version. Therefore, I would like to express my gratitude at the outset and add that I bear the responsibility for any remaining errors that have not been corrected. 3 Introduction The following grammatical sketch of Polish, designed for use on the Internet, attempts to cover many of the important points of Polish sounds and spelling and morphology, plus selected points in the areas of syntax and usage. It is neither complete nor designed for a sophisticated linguistic audience. Rather than use IPA (International Phonetic Association) or scholarly symbols, standard Polish orthography has been used wherever possible in discussions of the sound system. Nevertheless, I have tried to make all statements accurate, while deviating, in some respects, from traditional school grammars. For example, the morphological discussion of cases according to Roman Jakobson's morphological studies: nominative, accusative, genitive, locative, dative, instrumental--in preference to the older ordering of nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative. Jakobsons ideas have also influenced the presentation of the Polish verb, which is based on the notion that the entire verbal paradigm can be derived from a single stem. Although these Jakobsonian ideas are already found in many scholarly treatments of Polish and other Slavic languages, they are still somewhat rare in presentations designed for general audiences. Thus, this grammatical sketch tries to occupy a middle ground, not attempting to be comprehensive, but aiming at accuracy in its descriptions. While not a substitute for a textbook, it might provide a useful review of the sound system and Polish inflection.
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