O gradacji typu dobry – niezły – nie najgorszy – nie najlepszy – niedobry – zły
The Gradation Type: good – pretty good – not bad – not the best – bad

Summary/Abstract: In Polish there is a possibility to form many degrees of intensity of adjectives and adverbs. Such a phenomenon does not exist in Occidental Indo-European languages. The synthetic forms of intensity mean that the semantic features are of medium intensity on the segment pointed out by an adjective and its antonym. The aim of this paper is to discover the rules of the use of different medium-intensity forms. We have established that it depends on the following elements: existence of a synthetic form of the comparative degree, possibility to defi ne the adjective/adverb through the formula „more than average”, existence or non-existence of the limit of intensity and – fi nally – linguistic usage. Adj. A. Gierba

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