A to prostak jeden! – o ekspresywnej jednostce jeden
What a (damn) boor! – on the expressive unit jeden (one)

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of the analysis is to preliminarily characterize the syntactic-functionalfeatures of the string jeden (‘one’) in occurrences to the one given in the title. In a broaderperspective, the paper can be treated as a part of the studies on description of languageunits (in the sense of Andrzej Bogusławski) as the main building material of utterances.The analysis leads to the conclusion that the described unit does not belong to the objectivelevel of language and it is used with nouns referring to people, taking a postposition relativeto those nouns. The unit can not function as a rheme in a thematic-rhematic structure.(It is primarily a rhematic comment.) Jeden is an expressive unit and it determinesthe (negative) evaluation.

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