Boire et (-)pić (się) : analyse et désambiguïsation

Abstract

This paper analyses different senses of the French verb boire, especially those that can be paraphrased by ‘swallowing liquid’, the most easily associated with this verb. To these meanings correspond in Polish the imperfective form pić and some perfective verbs, such as wypić, napić się and przepić. The semantico-syntactic analysis of the verb boire will be followed by the Polish equivalents of each construction. The objective is to observe regularities in the choice of the Polish equivalent of each French structure. The results will be able to enrich the information for bilingual dictionaries and for machine translation.