Czy sypanie i lanie musi odbywać się w dół?
Do sypanie (Sprinkling) and lanie (Pouring) Have to Go Down?

Summary/Abstract: The article points out that there is no one sort of sypać and lać, but their various units including the verbs. Sprinkling sawdust on the floor (sypanie) or pouring water into a glass (lanie) has a different semantic-syntagmatic structure than throwing sand in the eyes (sypanie) or pouring juice on the table (in Polish it is the opposition of sprinkling/pouring something into something else on the one hand and sprinkling/pouring with something on the other). Sprinkling/pouring in the latter case does not have to go down, which is proved in the paper. The deception point might be gravity, which is at the back of every language userís mind. According to the author of the article, the two verbs in question and almost identical as far as the meaning or the predicate-argumentative structure is concerned. Semantic units without an agent of action like: śnieg sypie or (Deszcz) leje (Itís snowing; itís raining) are a separate case for research.

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