Information on the thesis

The  thesis  focuses  on  the  complex  analysis  of  the  semantic-grammatical
category  of  person  in  the  Polish  language;  the  above  category  is  viewed  as  an
interlevel  one.  In  the  sentence,  the  syntactic  person  depends  on  the  morphological
person (the inflectional category of person in the system of the categories of Verb, the
lexical-grammatical category of person in the system of the categories of Pronoun and
Noun);  yet  in  terms  of  its  grammatical  characteristics,  the  former  differs  from  the
latter  in  meaning  and  means  of  expression;  additionally,  the  syntactic  person  is  a
multidimensional  category.  The  status  of  the  category  of  the  syntactic  person  is
grounded in the concept of syntactic semantics  as first and foremost the semantics of
relations.
I  argue  that  the  category  of  the  syntactic  person  has  predicative  and  non-
predicative  status;  the  vocative  case  has  the  ‘subjective’  (‘agentive’)  and  ‘non-
subjective’  (‘non-agentive’)  meaning;  in  the  Polish  language,  there  exist  specific
sentence  patterns  with  definite  semantics,  indefinite  semantics,  the  semantics  of
generalization and the interlevel (lexical, morphological, syntactic, prosodic) means of
their representation with a common semantic component in their meanings.
Key  words:  person,  subject,  agent,  predicativity,  morphological  person,
syntactic  person,  deictic  meaning,  agentivity,  non-agentivity,  definiteness,
indefiniteness  and generalization of person.