Czy czyjaś osoba to osoba?
Is the person of some person a person?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to describe and explain the meaning of the Polish constructionczyjaś osoba ‘the person of some person; persona’. The basis of investigations is the materialculled out from the Polish corpora database (NKJP) and Polish historical and contemporarydictionaries. In the syntactic, as well as semantic analyses of the unit in question (esp. itssyntactic function and collocations with predicates) the author reaches to a conclusionthat: 1) the expression czyjaś osoba is semantic entity; 2) this unit can’t function as an agentin a sentence (persona/the person of some person isn’t someone or something); 3) thelanguage unit czyjaś osoba isn’t equivalent of the notion of person.

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