Wybór i nieokreśloność jako komponenty semantyczne przymiotnika dowolny

Abstract

The article discusses syntactic and semantic features of the adjective dowolny ‘any’. The adjective in question refers to an object that the speaker intends to choose from a set of many elements. However, it doesn’t matter which object will be chosen. In the moment of choice the object loses its feature of “anyness”. The nominal phrase with the adjective dowolny represents indefinite description and this phrase can occur only in non-declarative sentences. The adjective dowolny is semantically related to the pronouns with the morpheme -kolwiek ‘any’.

Authors and Affiliations

Maciej Grochowski

Keywords

Related Articles

Konwencjonalne zwroty wykrzyknikowe (quasi-religijne) ze składnikiem Bóg, Jezus, Matka Boska itp. w utworach Władysława Orkana

The article is firmly rooted in the studies of religious language. The subject matter are secondary interjections incorporating words such as “Bóg”, “Jezus”, “Matka Boska”, gleaned from three W. Orkan’s novels: Komornicy...

Gdy pisarz staje się dziennikarzem. Kilka uwag o „Gazecie Pisarzy”

The article stems from a media linguistic perspective and serves as a case study for comparing the roles of a journalist and a writer. The author chose a textual experiment for that purpose, namely the 23–24 April 2016 e...

A złote jabłko stało się jabłkiem niezgody – o kulturowym i leksykograficznym wymiarze dwóch mitologizmów z komponentem nazywającym owoc

In the phraseological stock of Polish there can be found language units which conceal a cultural symbolism of mythological provenance – symbolism that speakers are perhaps sometimes unaware of. In this group tere are two...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP513019
  • DOI 10.24917/20831765.12.10
  • Views 118
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Maciej Grochowski (2017). Wybór i nieokreśloność jako komponenty semantyczne przymiotnika dowolny. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 0(234), 104-111. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-513019