On pairs of distributionally equivalent verbal components

Urszula Andrejewicz

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

Abstract

This article is continuation of the discussion on grammatical characteristics of the Polish verbal components, understood as elements of phraseological units. The subject of the work is comparison of collocations, containing a pair of equivalent verbal components. The research demonstrated interesting grammatical regularity between inflection and syntactic features. The verbal components having different forms in collocations, including personal forms, have typical functions of a verb, e.g. constitute a sentence. The components, which have only one form – even identical with a personal form – do not function as finite verbal phrases. They have specific syntactic properties.

Keywords:

phraseology, syntax, verbal lexeme, verbal component