LingVaria (May 2019)
Związki przymiotnika "były" z rzeczownikami
Abstract
Connectivity of the Adjective były ‘Former’ with Nouns The paper discusses the grammatical and semantic characteristics of the adjective były ‘former’, with a particular regard to its connectivity with nouns. The adjective były is an element of a nominal group, it connotes a noun on the right side, and cannot be used in the function of a predicate. It connects with certain groups of common nouns which denote people and artifacts, as well as with geographical names; it does not connect with names of animals or plants.
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