Subjectification and intersubjectification in the analysis of the Polish adverb niestety ‘unfortunately/ regrettably’
Subjectification and intersubjectification in the analysis of the Polish adverb niestety ‘unfortunately/ regrettably’
Author(s): Agnieszka PiórkowskaSubject(s): Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Subjectification; intersubjectification; emotional attitude; adverbs; modality;
Summary/Abstract: The present article aims at summarizing the results of the corpus-based study of the semanto-syntactic behaviour of the emotionally-loaded Polish adverb niestety ‘unfortunately/regrettably’. It will be claimed that the different uses of niestety are governed by the processes of subjectification, both at the synchronic and diachronic level. Such a perspective also allows us to explain the intersubjective senses in which this highly grammaticalized adverb is sometimes used in Polish.
Journal: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 02 (17)
- Page Range: 9-29
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English