The jako-phrase in the verbal valency structure and outside of this structure Cover Image

Jako-fraza w strukturze walencyjnej czasownika i poza tą strukturą
The jako-phrase in the verbal valency structure and outside of this structure

Author(s): Magdalena Danielewiczowa
Subject(s): Syntax, Semantics, Western Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: semantics; syntax; verb; arguments and modifiers;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the valency structure of verbs with the segment jako ‘as’, belonging to their expression plane and introducing a nominal phrase, e.g. x potraktował y jako z ‘x treated y as z’, x skończyłjako y ‘x ended up as y’. The author presents a large (though incomplete) list of predicates of this kind. She considers the possibility of distinguishing them from the uses in which jako has the status of a semantically independent word, and the jako-phrase accompanies a given verb as a modifier of its predicate-argument structure, e.g. N przemówił jako przewodniczący zebrania ‘N. spoke as the chairman of the meeting’. The focus of reflection in the article is also on a semantic role of the nominal phrase introduced by jako as an inalienable part of a verb.

  • Issue Year: 75/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-108
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish