A semantic analysis of the Polish verb [ktośi] podpowiedział [komuśj], że p

Abstract

 The purpose of the paper is to present a description of the meaning of the Polish     verb [ktośi] podpowiedział [komuśj], że p. In dictionaries of contemporary Polish     language, the verb podpowiedzieć (advise) is described as an ambiguous word. The     author claims that there is only one meaning of the verb podpowiedzieć. It refers to     such a speech act, in which the speaker has to assume that the addressee is about to     do something, but he lacks sufficient knowledge to perform that action. The speaker     thinks that someone can manage the addressee’s problem if one knows about a certain     set of sentences, with particular expressions belonging to it, and that they are     true. One of these sentences becomes the content of the speech act described.