Wyłowione z potoku mowy. O statusie i funkcjonowaniu w polszczyźnie wyrażenia „powiem ci, że_”
Caught in the stream of speech. On the status and functioning of "powiem ci, że_" (‘I will tell you that _’) in the spoken Polish

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a description of a common phrase which occurs in private, colloquial conversations. It most commonly functions in utterances as a sequence, yet this is not the only shape it assumes – the rightside singular pronoun can be replaced with an addressee-related expressions, e.g. "powiem wam, że_", "powiem panu / pani, że_" (‘I’ll tell you that_’ when "you" can denote both a second person plural pronoun as well as a polite third person singular pronoun with Ms/Mr as the addressee), etc. The presented discussion aims at establishing the status of the expression, which means deciding whether the analysed sequence constitutesa complete unit formally and functionally separate from others (i.e. a unit of language according to Andrzej Bogusławski), or whether this is a co-occurrence of units which is often used in this form. Another purpose of the article is to present more closely a set of linguistic features of the described phrase, especially its pragmatic and semantic properties. A short note also refers to the grammatical classification of the sequence "powiem ci, że_".

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