English to Polish - Revision history

Francis Tyers: /* Notes */

2010-12-10T13:24:46Z

Notes

2008-04-05T19:38:18Z

Notes

2008-03-19T01:07:31Z

Dictionaries: add another from Google Books

2008-02-17T14:53:41Z

Dictionaries

2008-02-17T13:00:22Z

new section: ===Translation Guides===

2008-01-09T10:59:27Z

się: oops

2008-01-09T10:58:58Z

się: examples

2008-01-05T00:55:57Z

się: add another article about 'się'

2008-01-01T13:41:59Z

Syntax: się

2008-01-01T13:36:21Z

Articles: Add a reference to 'Do Cases Define?', which outlines certain cases where we can determine which article to use

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 ===Dictionaries===
 *[http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/polszczyzna/Knapski/Knapski_DjVu/ Słownik Knapskiego] '''(Thesaurus Polonolatinograecus seu Promptuarium linguae Latinae et Graecae)''' by Grzegorz Knapski -- public domain Polish-Greek-Latin/Latin-Polish dictionary from the 1600s.
+*[http://books.google.ie/books?id=RnwDAAAAYAAJ A complete Dictionary English and Polish and Polish and English] by Erazm Rykarzewski -- public domain
 ==Notes==

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 ===Translation Guides===
 *[http://www.piotr.kresak.pl/konwen222.htm Poradnik dla tłumaczących oprogramowanie firmy Lotus] Guide to translating software, originally written for Lotus
+===Dictionaries===
+*[http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/polszczyzna/Knapski/Knapski_DjVu/ Słownik Knapskiego] '''(Thesaurus Polonolatinograecus seu Promptuarium linguae Latinae et Graecae)''' by Grzegorz Knapski -- public domain Polish-Greek-Latin/Latin-Polish dictionary from the 1600s.
 ==Notes==

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 *[http://free.of.pl/g/grzegorj/gram/gram00.html A Grammar of the Polish Language] by Grzegorz Jagodziński
 *[http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/grammar.pdf A Grammar of Contemporary Polish] by Oscar E. Swan
+===Translation Guides===
+*[http://www.piotr.kresak.pl/konwen222.htm Poradnik dla tłumaczących oprogramowanie firmy Lotus] Guide to translating software, originally written for Lotus
 ==Notes==

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 Examples:
-On kocha się - he loves himself (reflexive)
+ On kocha się - he loves himself (reflexive)
-Oni kochają się - they love each other (distributive)
+ Oni kochają się - they love each other (distributive)
-[Oni kochają siebie - they love themselves (reflexive)]
+ [Oni kochają siebie - they love themselves (reflexive)]
-On myje się - he washes himself (reflexive)
+ On myje się - he washes himself (reflexive)
-Oni myją się - they wash themselves (reflexive)
+ Oni myją się - they wash themselves (reflexive)
-[Oni myją się nawzajem - they wash each other (distributive)]
+ [Oni myją się nawzajem - they wash each other (distributive)]
 ==Resources==

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 ===się===
-The Polish reflexive/distributive pronoun 'się' (and its forms) is rather difficult to handle<ref>Tabakowska [http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/4/tabakowska.pdf Those notorious Polish reflexive pronouns: a plea for Middle Voice]</ref>. This may require separate dictionary entries for each form in some cases, but as it may be shared between verbs, or placed freely almost anywhere within a clause, it may be difficult to determine which form to use.
+The Polish reflexive/distributive pronoun 'się' (and its forms) is rather difficult to handle<ref>Tabakowska [http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/4/tabakowska.pdf Those notorious Polish reflexive pronouns: a plea for Middle Voice]</ref> <ref>Rivero [http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~romlab/2PDF-JSL.pdf Impersonal SIĘ in Polish: A Simplex Expression Anaphor]</ref>. This may require separate dictionary entries for each form in some cases, but as it may be shared between verbs, or placed freely almost anywhere within a clause, it may be difficult to determine which form to use.
 ==Resources==

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 ===Articles===
-Polish doesn't have articles, so translating English→Polish, we'll need to remove them, translating Polish→English, we'll need to add them.
+Polish doesn't have articles, so translating English→Polish, we'll need to remove them, translating Polish→English, we'll need to add them. There are, however, some cases<ref>Bacz [http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/fgg/articles/prof/bacz/art_1.htm Do Cases Define? On Expressing the Definite/Indefinite Opposition in Polish]</ref> where we can add them.
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