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listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Evolution in the Use of Evolution? An Overview of the Term in the Corpus of Historical American English(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Barczewska, ShalaWhile synchronous analyses of the interaction between language and society abound, e.g., in discourse studies, diachronic corpus-based studies are rare. This paper attempts to fill that gap with an investigation into the frequency and collocational preferences of evolution in COHA: The Corpus of Historical American English (Davies 2010). This lexeme was chosen for two reasons. First, the acceptance and teaching of biological evolution, especially in public schools, have been points of contention in American culture for 100, if not 150, years, comprising one of America’s “culture wars.” Hence, the topic is of contemporary as well as historical discourse interest. Second, a pattern between the frequency of evolution and the popularity of the theory in American history was noted by Barczewska (2017). This suggests a link between the use of the lexeme and the theory’s reception. The current analysis investigates the frequency of evolution in COHA as a whole and according to genre. Collocational preferences within the corpus reveal changes in the way evolution is used over time. The paper also highlights the advantages and disadvantages of using COHA for similar research projects and suggests that the process applied here could be used to study the verbalization of other culture-shaping phenomena.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , The Teacher and the Frog: Unveiling the Morphosyntax of Gender Shifts in Czech with Nanosyntax(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Boucník, DanielThis study examines the formation of nouns in Czech that show grammatical gender through stem morphemes and three productive suffixes: -a, -k-(a), and -ák. These suffixes are the main morphological exponents across three noun classes – monomorphemic (e.g. kmotr/kmotr-a), bimorphemic (učitel/učitel-k-a), and stem–suffix compounds (žáb-a/žab-ák). Using nanosyntax, the study shows that gender alternations arise from hierarchical syntactic structures rather than lexical or semantic defaults. By investigating noun pairs such as učitel (‘teacher.Masc’) / učitel-k-a (‘teacher.Fem’) and žáb-a (‘frog.FEM’) / žab-ák (‘frog.MASC’), the study shows that masculine forms contain Class and Masc, while feminine forms emerge through the addition of Fem. Suffixes such as -k-a and -ák function as lexicalization solutions, structured through movement-based operations. This approach refines our understanding of Czech gender morphology, demonstrating that nanosyntax captures gender alternations systematically even when surface forms are unpredictable. By modeling these alternations within a unified syntactic framework, the study provides a principled account of morphological derivation and paves the way for further cross-linguistic extensions.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Some Partial Considerations on Partial Control Instances in Romanian(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Cotfas, Maria AureliaThe paper looks at the possibility of Partial Control (henceforth, PC) instances in Romanian, a language which uses finite (subjunctive) complements in typical control contexts and where PC has therefore been deemed impossible. We show that PC effects can indeed be manifested in Romanian under a putea ‘can’, which we analyze as a neutral circumstantial modal in these contexts. We show, following Matsuda (2021), that these PC instances are sensitive to indexicality (viz., the current speech situation) and represent an interplay of (inclusion of) [+Speaker], [+Addressee] or both. We therefore identify three typical PC instances: a) 1st singular antecedent + 1st plural embedded reference (inclusion of current speaker); b) 2nd singular antecedent + 2nd plural embedded subject (inclusion of Addressee) and c) 2nd singular antecedent + 1st plural embedded subject (inclusion of both). This shows that in spite of the raising behaviour of most O(bligatory)C(ontrol)/E(xaustive) C(ontrol) verbs in Romanian (cf. Alboiu 2007, Cotfas 2012), there are contexts for which a control analysis needs to be maintained, and, more broadly, that PRO is to be maintained as an empty category and cannot be reduced to raising/movement.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Teaching Language-Specific Preferences in the Native Language: An Interactive Web App for Prospective Teachers(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Delucchi Danhier, Renate; González Ávalos, PaulaNatural languages offer diverse means for conveying the same idea, with each language typically exhibiting a predominant way of selecting and packaging information, referred to as a language-specific preference. Cross-linguistic research on motion events has shown that native speakers tend to favor such patterns and intuitively recognize non-preferred lexicalizations, particularly in the domain of motion event description. Due to subtle differences in grammar and vocabulary, these preferences are language-specific. Acquiring the language-specific preferences of a second or foreign language poses a challenge even for advanced learners, especially when these preferences diverge from those internalized in the native language. Language teachers, however, are often unaware of both the existence of such preferences and the difficulties they pose for learners. This study therefore aims (1) to enable prospective teachers to discover language-specific preferences through a bottom-up, data-driven approach, and (2) to raise awareness of the challenges involved in acquiring them. Accordingly, the online application LexiGraph was developed to enable prospective German teachers to identify patterns in linguistic data. Using an interactive dataset, students explored the expression of motion events across languages and speaker groups. The app supports visual exploration and provides a threshold learning experience that fosters an engaging and intellectually challenging learning environment by encoding complex semantic and syntactic information. Student feedback highlights the novelty of the technological approach, although some participants perceived the material as cognitively demanding. Developing an understanding of language-specific lexicalization patterns can support prospective teachers in working with language learners and contribute to more inclusive multilingual education.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , AI the Teacher? A Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Learning(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Kobierski, MiriamThe use of AI-based tools in the classroom is only one example of how artificial intelligence has influenced various realms of everyday life. It is impossible to overlook the growing impact of this technology and the potential repercussions of using it. AI-based tools such as ChatGPT or Google Translate and specialised AI language learning tools, such as Duolingo and Busuu offer many possibilities for learners to study, including: creating specific learning sets for individual users, translations, and detailed explanations (De la Vall & Araya 2023). Recent studies have shown that this solution is becoming increasingly popular. One study conducted at a university in Germany found that every fourth student used AI-based tools very frequently, while half of the students used them occasionally (von Garrel & Mayer 2023). This study investigates which group of learners use such tools the most and examines the experience of using AI tools to aid learning. I apply methods of statistical analysis to examine how the use of AI tools influences teaching and learning. I gathered three different focus groups (high school students, university students, and university graduates) to examine various aspects such as: whether they used AI tools to aid their learning process, what types of tools were used, if these tools proved to be effective, their overall satisfaction while using these ways of learning, and what (other) benefits they gained from these methods of learning.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Investigating Academic Writing Workload Among English Department Students: A NASA-TLX Analysis of Gamified Instruction(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Łodej, MonikaThis study investigates the workload experienced by English Department students in a gamified academic writing task. The NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) serves as the primary instrument for analyzing workload distribution across six dimensions: mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, and frustration. Additionally, the study examines its correlation with self-reported perceived learning and learning outcomes. Data collected from 23 Master’s students in Poland indicate a moderate overall workload, with effort and frustration emerging as the primary contributors. While students reported improvements in citation mastery, perceived workload did not exhibit a significant correlation with final grades. The findings suggest that gamification can enhance student engagement without imposing excessive cognitive strain.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Back to Normality? A Bibliometric Analysis of L2 Vocabulary Research 1989–93(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Meara, PaulThis paper is the latest in a series of studies published in LingBaW that contribute towards a historical review of research into L2 vocabulary acquisition. This instalment uses an author co-citation analysis (Small 1973) to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1993. Two analyses are presented. The first analysis provides a context for the 1993 data. It looks at work that was being cited in a five-year window covering 1989–93. The second analysis is a more detailed account of the 1993 research on its own terms. These analyses suggest that a surge in psycholinguistic research identified in 1992 may be a transient feature of the field. 1993 exhibits a return the patterns noted in our earlier studies, where the most significant influences come from an applied linguistics perspective.listelement.badge.dso-type Item , Polish Modal Ellipsis(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2025) Modrzejewska, NadiaOver the past years, Modal Ellipsis (ME) has been the focus of some cross-linguistic investigations in languages such as Spanish (Dagnac 2010, Fernández-Sánchez 2023), Dutch (Aelbrecht 2010), French (Authier 2011), and Czech (Gruet-Skrabalova 2017), among others. Initially, it was considered to involve a null proform – a silent pronominal element standing in for the missing complement (Brucart 1999, Depiante 2000). More recent analyses, however, argue that this elliptical construction should be analysed as PF-deletion. According to this approach, the ellipsis site has a full syntactic structure deleted at Phonetic Form. In this paper, I propose that Polish ME follows the PF-deletion pattern, specifically targeting the complement of VoiceP. To test this hypothesis, I examine three diagnostics – extraction, case connectivity effects, and syntactic mismatches. The data reveal that Polish ME allows extraction and exhibits case-matching effects between the remnant and the elided structure. These findings provide compelling evidence that Polish ME involves an underlying syntactic structure deleted at PF.