O sile emocji. Analiza semantyczna wyrażeń kogoś wryło, kogoś zamurowało i kogoś zatkało
On the power of emotions. A semantic analysis of the expressions "kogoś wryło, kogoś zamurowało and kogoś zatkało"

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on three linguistic units: kogoś wryło, kogoś zamurowało and kogośzatkało. These are one-argument predicates which encode results of intense emotions.They can be treated as lexical exponents of ‘surprise’ and similar concepts, although theydiffer from other expressions representing this category in, among other factors, theirpragmatic value (as well as their vividness) and the intensity of the emotions that theyconvey. The paper describes the syntactic properties of the expressions and the mechanismsof predication (a specific shift from the concrete to the abstract, hyperbolisation),but most importantly it distinguishes elements of the semantic structure of the linguisticunits. The ultimate aim of the presented characterization is an attempt to define thethree examined expressions.

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