The meaning and syntax of mental verb predicates in the Issa Valley by Czesław Milosz

Henryka Sędziak

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

Abstract

The author discusses the ways concepts are expressed in Czesław Milosz's novel Issa Valley, analyzing formal and semantic features of mental verb predicates and phraseological connotations functioning as such predicates in contexts. She emphasizes the lack of border features and social differences between the nobility and villagers speech in the lexis defining thinking processes.