TY - JOUR AU - Żabowska, Magdalena PY - 2022/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Semantics and functions of the so-called expressive jeden JF - Prace Językoznawcze JA - PJUWM VL - 24 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.31648/pj.7607 UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/7607 SP - 187-201 AB - <p>This paper is concerned with expressive vocabulary, it focuses on Polish the “expressive”<br />word jeden [Pol. ‘one’]. The article refers to discussions on the function of this expression<br />(Mel’čuk and Milićević 2011; Kosek 2020). The undertaken analysis is rooted in the<br />structural semantics, and it investigates the contemporary meaning and function of jeden.<br />The article scrutinizes differences between functions of evaluative nouns and exclamatives,<br />and also between jeden and other expressions, in particular intensifiers. The scrutiny<br />starts from syntactic features of jeden and proceeds to semantic analyses. It is underlined<br />that expressiveness, intensification, predication, and reference are functions of other<br />elements of the sentence rather than of jeden. The findings enable one to make a connection<br />between jeden and the category of anaphora. The paper demonstrates that the so-called<br />expressive component might be analysed as a meaning of a given type of sentence,<br />a meaning of the entire construction, or as a function of the element of the construction.</p> ER -