Quasi-participial mówiąc ‘speaking’ with adverbial complements in Polish: A quantitative corpus-based study

Abstract

This article employs frame semantics, a usage-based model of construction grammar, along with a quantitative corpus-based approach, to examine the characteristics of the construction involving adverbial complements and the quasi-participle mówiąc ‘speaking’ in Polish. The author analyzes instances of this construction within the National Corpus of Polish to ascertain its structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-functional features. Furthermore, the study identifies adverbial complements with a strong affinity for the construction. The investigation reveals that the construction is frequently associated with distinct categories of adverbial complements that invoke diverse semantic frames. Additionally, this construction appears in various registers and serves multiple functions in discourse.