OD TYTUŁOWANIA DO WYZYWANIA. CZASOWNIKI NOMINACYJNO-ADRESATYWNE WE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ POLSZCZYŹNIE
FROM TITLING TO NAME-CALLING. NOMINATIVE AND ADDRESSATIVE VERBS IN THE CONTEMPORARY POLISH

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the resource of addressative and nominative verbs in the contemporary Polish, which serve the purpose of giving account of addressing an utterance to a selected addressee and describing him or her, simultaneously or not, in a certain manner. This resource is composed of: strictly addressative verbs, cf. zwrócić się do [kogoś] [jakoś] (to address [someone] [somehow]) and powiedzieć [coś] do [kogoś] (to say [something] to [someone]), naming verbs, cf. naz(y)wać [kogoś/coś] [jakoś] (to name [someone/something] [somehow]), powiedzieć na [kogoś/coś] [jakoś] (to call [someone/something] [somehow]), descriptive verbs, cf. powiedzieć ([komuś]) [coś/że_] o [kimś/czymś] (to tell ([someone]) [something/ that_] about [someone/something])), as well as titling and insulting verbs, cf. (z) wyzywać [kogoś] od kogoś/czegoś] (to call [someone] names), tytułować [kogoś] [jakoś] (to title [someone] [somehow]). These verbs are part of the metalinguistic competence of the users of the contemporary Polish and enable them to describe important aspects of acts of communication in everyday conversations and their existence confirms and specifies the intuitions of researchers formulated in the artificial metalanguage, cf. the scope and definitions of czasowniki adresatywne (addressative verbs) as approached by M. Marcjanik and wypowiedzi DO kogoś (utterances addressed TO someone) as approached by J. Lalewicz.

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