Linguistic influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's style
Titel: | Linguistic influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's style / Mary Morzinski |
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Veröffentlicht: | Boulder [u.a.] : East European Monographs [u.a.], 1994 |
Umfang: | 148 S. : graph. Darst. |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Conrad: Eastern and Western perspectives / general ed.: Wiesław Krajka ; 3 ![]() East European monographs ; 412 |
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ISBN: | 088033309x |
This linguistic analysis of Conrad's style focuses on the influence of his native Polish. An examination of his writings indicates that some of his more noticeable syntactic choices reflect the semantics inherent in the Polish morphology, such as his unusual placing of adverbs.