Can Polish -no/-to Demote Discourse-Prominent Referents? Corpus Data vs. Acceptability
Most human impersonal constructions can either refer to demoted referents or demote a previously discourse-prominent referent. According to Bunčić (2019), however, the Polish ‑no/‑to construction cannot be used to demote a topical referent. This paper reports the results of a corpus study and two ac...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/12850 |