Preface

What is it about?

This is a preface to a special issue of "Questions and Answers in Linguistics", an online, open-access peer-reviewed jour­nal edited and pub­lished by Cen­ter for Gen­eral and Com­par­a­tive Lin­guis­tics at the Uni­ver­sity of Wrocław in cooperation with De Gruyter Open. The collection of six articles contained within it, originally conceived as a Festschrift for professor Bożena Rozwadowska on her 60th birthday, is intended to honour her outstanding scientific achievements.

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Why is it important?

The volume contains seven very interesting contributions on various important linguistics issues: Artemis Alexiadou: "English psych verbs and the causative alternation: A case study in the history of English" Joanna Błaszczak and Dorota Klimek-Jankowska: "What can the psycholinguistic research on word class ambiguities tell us about categories?" Bożena Cetnarowska: "Group adjectives, possessives and single participant derived nominals in Polish" Antonio Fábregas and Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández: "Extraction out of adjectival secondary predicates in English and Spanish: A nanosyntactic account" Henriëtte de Swart: "Perfect usage across languages" Ewa Willim: "On inchoative states. Evidence from modification of Polish perfective psych verb by degree quantifiers" Jacek Witkoś: "A brief note on undermerge and case overwriting"