Osobiście w zdaniu i w strukturze tematyczno-rematycznej wypowiedzenia
Units with the Form osobiście in Sentences and in the Thematic-Rhematic Structure of Utterances

Summary/Abstract: The author of this article claims that in Polish there are three independent language units containingthe form osobiście. They differ both functionally and formally. Only one of these units (osobiście1‘in a personal manner’) is an ordinary adverb operating on the syntactic level, that is, entering intosyntactic and semantic relations with other components of a given sentence. The other two units areoperators of the thematic-rhematic structure. They organize the content of utterances they participatein and comment on it. Osobiście2 (‘personally’) is inherently thematic; it can function as the maintheme of a given utterance or stands next to the theme making this element easier to identify. Theunit osobiście3 (‘in person’) is, in turn, primarily rhematic or precedes the rheme as its thematizedexponent. Osobiście2 and osobiście3 are two types of dictum, on the one hand – thematic comment andon the other – rhematic. These expressions have much in common with the units of the form sam.Besides osobiście1, osobiście2 and osobiście3, there is also in Polish the idiom znać / poznać [kogoś]osobiście ‘know / get to know someone personally’.

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