Z zagadnień motywacji jednostek frazeologicznych – pisz na Berdyczów
On motivation of phraseological units – pisz na Berdyczów

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to describe the motivation (as understood by A. M. Lewicki)of a slightly forgotten Polish phraseological unit – pisz na Berdyczów (used when a speakerwants to get rid of someone: lit. ‘write to Berdyczów’; Berdyczów – a city in Ukraine).The first part of the article contains a few remarks on the structure and meaning of theunit, while its second part discusses motivation. The author presents possible hypothesesrelated to the motivation of the unit, suggesting that the connotations with Berdyczówas an unknown remote place are most important for the contemporary understandingof the analysed phraseological unit.

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