English versus Slavic

Ewa Konieczna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). Her main research interests include morphological polysemy, embodied cognition in language and innovative word formation processes.Robert Kiełtyka is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include diachronic semantics, cognitive linguistics and morphology-semantics interface.

• The semantics and morphology of identity enhancement in the lexicons of bulgarian and english – Polish versus English metonymy-based synonyms of «prostitute» – A contrastive analysis of Yiddish words in English and Slavic languages: The female-related vocabulary – Lexico-semantic analysis of the nouns denoting Respect in English and Ukrainian – Conceptualization and lexicalization patterns in Croatian and English: Morphosemantic fields related to the concept of SIGHT – Birdsemy in English and Polish Idiomatic and Proverbial Expressions from the Perspective of Language and Culture – Language of love: On zoosemy and terms of endearment in English, Russian and Polish – On the complexity of zoosemic transfers in English and Polish – Extension of spatial relations to non-physical domains: English particle on and Polish prefix «na»- in composite verbs – An Overview of Polish and English Attributive Ethnonyms Based on Culinary Traditions – Dispositional middles in English and Polish with detours into other Slavic languages – Case Assignment by Verbal Particles in English and Verbal Prefixes in Slovak