Pomiędzy składnią a leksyką – problemy proceduralne

Between syntax and lexis. Procedural issues The paper discusses combinations of words which, due to their ambivalent grammatical status, are suspended on the borderline between lexis and syntax. The considerations aim to expose the ineffectiveness of the identification procedures of lexical units in the process of unambiguous interpretation of such objects as ktoś jest pod presją czasu ‘someone is under time pressure’ or rozebrać na czynniki pierwsze ‘to thoroughly disassemble’. In the course of the discussion, a set of phrases selected from lexicographic works is first contrasted with the formal characteristics that are ascribed in the definitions to indivisible units (p. 2.1.), and then with semantic features (p. 2.2.). The essential goal of these operations is to demonstrate the practical difficulties that arise when one attempts to assign the analyzed strings to the appropriate set.