Tzw. ekspresywne jeden – znaczenie i funkcja
Semantics and functions of the so-called expressive jeden

Summary/Abstract: This paper is concerned with expressive vocabulary, it focuses on Polish the “expressive” word jeden [Pol. ‘one’]. The article refers to discussions on the function of this expression (Mel’čuk and Milićević 2011; Kosek 2020). The undertaken analysis is rooted in the structural semantics, and it investigates the contemporary meaning and function of jeden. The article scrutinizes differences between functions of evaluative nouns and exclamatives, and also between jeden and other expressions, in particular intensifiers. The scrutiny starts from syntactic features of jeden and proceeds to semantic analyses. It is underlined that expressiveness, intensification, predication, and reference are functions of other elements of the sentence rather than of jeden. The findings enable one to make a connection between jeden and the category of anaphora. The paper demonstrates that the so-called expressive component might be analysed as a meaning of a given type of sentence, a meaning of the entire construction, or as a function of the element of the construction.

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