PYTANIA ROZSTRZYGNIĘCIA Z UDZIAŁEM CZASOWNIKÓW EPISTEMICZNYCH. CO WYNIKA Z ICH UŻYCIA?
Yes-no questions with epistemic verbs. What follows from their use?

Summary/Abstract: The object of the research is utterances used at the same time to express an epistemic attitude towards the state of affairs reflected in propositional object and to receive an answer from the interlocutor, for instance: Chyba nie sądzisz, że Anna nadaje się na to stanowisko!? (You can’t think Anna is suitable for the position, can you!?). The author intends to determine how factive and non-factive verbs behave in such structures. Three groups of expressions were analysed in the first place: epistemic, speech and discovery verbs. The applied research method consisted in a comparative analysis of the collected language material. Clear syntactic, semantic and pragmatic differences between the structures with the use of factive and non-factive verbs were noticed.

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