Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

Chapter Eighteen
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(22) This motor's more a part of me than...

(22a) Ta maszyna jest czĊĞcią mnie bardziej ...

(23) put some fuel into that motor carriage of yours

(23a) zatankuje wasz pojazd

Other types of motor vehicles in fully identified context (24, 24a) will
also correspond to the Noun motor and, if modified with the adjectival
form motor, can refer to subordinate types of motor vehicles (25 – 29):

(24) Even the motor in the fields is given rest at regular intervals

(24a) Nawet traktor na polu ma przerwy na wystygniĊcie

(25) motor right up through the South to our home

(25a) mogliby popáynąü statkiem (lit. ‘boat/ship’) do Nowego Orleanu

(26) It's a custom-designed, climate-controlled motor coach

(26a) Specjalnie zaprojektowany autokar

(27) Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter

(27a) Nie umiem jeĨdziü na skuterze, sir

(28) But kids ride motor scooters now

(28a) Ale dzieci jeĪdĪą teraz na motorach

The monolexical form motor can also function as an equivalent of Eng.
chopper (equivalent of either’ motor aircraft’ or ‘motor cycle’ –
metonymically related to the sound emitted by the vehicles:

(29) You gonna offer me a chopper, a plane , a suitcase full of money?

(29a) Zaproponujesz mi motor, samolot , walizkĊ z forsą?

(30) Behind them they 're towing a motorboat, go-cart, dune buggy, dirt bike,

Jet Ski, snow mobile

(30a) Za sobą holują motorówkĊ, go - karta, dune buggy, motor, skuter wodny,

skuter ĞnieĪny..

The form motorboat is synonymously used with motor cruiser or
motor lauch to yield a similar Polish sense:

(31) we'd have sent the motor cruiser for you

(31a) przysáalibyĞmy po ciebie motorówkĊ