Co to znaczy: robić coś świadomie oraz świadomie coś robić? Dyskusja na temat epistemiczności / wolitywności przysłówków świadomie / nieświadomie

• Authors: Duraj-Nowosielska Izabela

Title variants

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What does it mean: to do something consciously and consciously do something? Reflections of epistemicity / volitionality of the Polish adverbs świadomie ('consciously') and nieświadomie ('unconsciously')

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the paper I reflect on the following questions concerning the Polish adverb świadomie ("consciously"): a) its relation to the adjective świadomy ("conscious"), on a syntactic and semantic level; b) the relation to its negative counterpart nieświadomie ("unconsciously"); c) how its interpretation depends on the intonational pattern of a sentence; d) how its interpretation depends on the intonational pattern of a sentence; d) how its interpretation depends on basic features of a modified verb. The key idea of the article, following the tradition of compositional semantics and semantic syntax (with a general reference to philosophical tradition), is that the adverb świadomie, both formally and semantically related to a stricly epistemic expression ktoś jest świadomy czegoś ("somebody is conscious of something"), in typical syntactic / intonational contexts shows certain features characteristic of volitional expressions (like celowo "purposefully" or umyślnie "deliberately"); I try to explain a semantic mechanism of this kind of transformation.

Keywords

EN

adverb; agentivity; conscious; consciously; consciousness; intentionality; volitionality

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Linguistica Copernicana
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 107-142

Contributors

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Duraj-Nowosielska Izabela

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Języka Polskiego