Czy aby Maciej mi przytaknie? O statusie aby w pytaniach rozstrzygnięcia

• Authors: Danielewiczowa Magdalena

Title variants

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Czy aby Maciej mi przytaknie? About the status of the aby in yes/no questions

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The subject-mater of this article is the status of the expression aby in the semantic structure of yes/no questions. Two possible solutions to the problem emerge from available lexicographic approaches: in some dictionaries the word aby is considered to be an inseparable part of an idiomatic interrogative form, while in others it is described as a bilateral, semantically independent unit of language. The author shows that in the past the word in question was a particle having a very wide range of use. In contemporary Polish its distribution is restricted to volitional contexts, but it still satisfies the condition of proportionality; therefore it should be interpreted as a lexical unit of Polish.

Keywords

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semantics; unit of language; yes/no questions; meta-operators; particles

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Linguistica Copernicana
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 1(7)
• Pages: 87-98

Contributors

author

Danielewiczowa Magdalena

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej