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Jeszcze o słówku jak w wyrażeniach jak na _

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The author discusses three different cases, in which the expression jak na _ can be observed. The first one, a language unit jak na _s, indicates in what situation what is being said is true about something. It is also detached from a sentence, keeping no syntactic relation with any of its elements and being prosodically separated from it. Similar prosodic and syntactic features are shown also by one of the subtypes of the third case, ie. a language unit jak na _em.. Its semantic specialization is correlated with the restrictions imposed on fillers of its valency slot. The second type, a comparative construction _ jak _ with a verbal filling on the left and prepositional phrase with na on the right, is one of the realisations of a comparative pattern with certain collocations stabilizing due to common cultural images. The subtype two of the third case, jak na + instruction-nouns, is halfway through lexicalization. It is only partially possible to predict what units fill its valency slot, jak can be exchanged by jakby and its position is not yet stable, which shows that this expression is not stabilized inits new function.
Journal: Linguistica Copernicana
ISSN: 2080-1068
Volume: 15
Pages: 95 - 110
Publication year:2019