Semantics and Syntax of the Verbs {życzyć, gratulować, winszować} (‘to wish’, ‘to congratulate’) Cover Image

Semantyka i składnia czasowników {życzyć, gratulować, winszować}
Semantics and Syntax of the Verbs {życzyć, gratulować, winszować} (‘to wish’, ‘to congratulate’)

Author(s): Katarzyna Dróżdż-Łuszczyk
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: verbs of speech acts; agentive; objective; addressee; syntactic positions

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of a semantic and syntactic confrontation of verbs wich indicate the speech acts in Polish: to wish (życzyć) and to congratulate (gratulować, winszować). The point of departure to the presented discussions is the observation that some authors suggest three syntactic positions of this verbs: agentive, objective and addressee. The author presents the results of research into using of this verbs and tries to give semantic characteristic of syntactic positions.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 70
  • Page Range: 159-169
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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