Krótka wypowiedź o podpowiedzi

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to discuss the previous descriptions of the meaning of the Polish verb [ktoś] podpowiedział [komuś], że_. In the dictionaries of the contemporary Polish language, the verb podpowiedzieć is presented as ambiguous. The author shares Alicja Wójcicka’s opinion that there is just one meaning of the lexical unit [ktoś] podpowiedział [komuś], że_. However, in her proposal, its semantic representation is founded on the concept ‘saying:_’, i.e. ‘quotative saying’, in its contradiction to assertive, literal, “serious” ‘saying that’, which represents the fundamental operation of explicitly transferring the speaker’s knowledge to the audience.