Przysłówki mówiące o sposobie robienia czegoś na tle określeń jakościowych czynności
Polish adverbs denotng manner of doing in comparison with qualitative descriptions of actions

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Polish adverbs denoting manner of doing. A semantic analysis has revealed the existence of three levels of the notion of manner of doing. The first is the level of rating; it comprises those adverbs which express subjective opinions on the given event, and thus it refers to the whole of the situation. The second is the level of qualification; it contains those adverbs which compare a specific manner of doing to how this kind of actions is usually performed. Finally, the third one is the level of quasi-description; adverbs of this type depict an action being a part of a more complex event (as e.g. the position or movement of the body while engaged in doing something), and hence their function in the sentence is that of description.

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