Le verbe polonais tęsknić: portraits lexicographiques d’une polysémie
The Polish verb tęsknić: lexicographic portraits of a polysemy

Summary/Abstract: The present paper explores the polysemy of the Polish verb tęsknić, drawing upon the systemic andsystematic semantic analysis and lexicographic description designed by Ju. Apresjan. Contemporarydictionaries document two senses of tęsknić: the primary one denotes a feeling, while the secondmeaning is predominantly volitional rather than emotional. However, an analysis of availablecorpora reveals that in everyday usage, tęsknić appears to manifest semantic contents far beyondthe scope of these ‘official’ meanings.According to a systematic approach to lexicography, it is essential to allocate equal attention toboth the unification of lexical units within a particular lexicographic type and to individual propertiesof each unit, particularly with regard to their semantically motivated formal characteristics.As to the common properties of the lexical type, the present study draws upon a substantial corpusof crosslinguistic research in the field of feelings and emotions. The main attention is given toindividuation, that is to particular semantic components and linguistically relevant properties oftęsknić, including syntactic structures of PP complements, perfective derivatives and intensifiers.In this respect, significant differences appear in the behaviour of occurrences identified in the corpus,leading to a hypothesis of a polysemy with four rather than two meanings.The findings of the study have resulted in the identification of four distinct meanings of tęsknić,as opposed to the two previously documented.

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