The semantic-syntactic analysis of the chosen lexical units with the word wystarczy

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the analysis of the following lexical units with  the word wystarczy: cośa wystarczyło, żeby p; cośa wystarczyło do tego, żeby p; cośa  wystarczyło komuśn do czegośb; wystarczyło, że q, a p. On the basis of the analysis  of their valency and the conducted tests, the author states that all these lexical items  imply that an event/a state of affairs caused another event/state of affairs and that  someone, basing on their knowledge about the world, could think that this would  not have happened. Further research has proven that two of those lexical units –  cośa wystarczyło komuśn do czegośb and cośa wystarczyło do tego, żeby p – imply,  moreover, that an event/a state of affairs, caused by another event/state of affairs,  was somehow desired. It has also turned out that the speaker using cośa wystarczyło  komuśn do czegośb or wystarczyło, że q, a p, informs that the resultant event/state of  affairs occurred right after the causative event/state of affairs.