@ARTICLE{Berlińska_Monika_A_2008,
 author={Berlińska, Monika},
 volume={vol. 29},
 journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA},
 pages={119-139},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2008},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach},
 abstract={My main aim in this paper is a semantic analysis of Polish reflexive constructions conducted within the framework of Langackers ( I 987, 1991) cognitive grammar with a view to showing that the great diversity of such constructions is only apparent as, at a more abstract level of conceptualization, they all function as contextual realizations of certain basic schematic notions. The analysis focuses on four ofWilczewska's (1966) twelve classes of Polish reflexive verbs: directly reflexive verbs, passive-resultative-spontaneous verbs, passive verbs, and reciprocal verbs. In the analysis I show that whenever Polish speakers make use ofa reflexive construction, they convey one of the following three types of information: an entity acts on itself, two (or more) entities act analogously on each other (one another), and an event seemingly happens on its own. Furthermore, I claim that it is the relational reflexive marker się, which, by dint of its several profiling options, brings different elements of a transitive-construction action chain into focus and makes the above-enumerated information types possible to be communicated. Consequently, I postulate three broad senses of Polish reflexive constructions: those expressing (I) reflexive relationships, (2) reciprocal relationships, and (3) seemingly spontaneous events-each constituting a separate, though closely related, grammatical category. In turn, these three senses/grammatical categories are said to form a crucial part of the schematic network model of Polish reflexive constructions.},
 type={Article},
 title={A cognitive grammar analysis of selected Polish reflexive constructions},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/131419/PDF-MASTER/13_LINGUISTICA_29_Berlinska_A_COGNITIVE.pdf},
}