“Sprowadzać dzieci na świat”, i.e. about the linguistic nature of unborn beings (against the background of valence properties and the verbal predicates that imply them)

Abstract

The term used in the title has, so far, not been the subject of a more extensive  linguistic reflection. The author of the paper aims at providing a description of  lexical units implying the argument ‘unborn being (child)’ with respect to their  structure and meaning. The method of analysis is based on proposing hypotheses in  the form of analytical implications and subjecting them to falsification by bringing  them down to contradiction. The content of the paper focuses on issues relating to the reconstruction of the form of lexical units (verbs). In a close reference to the  content of the analysed terms, the discussion considers also the following notions:  ‘żyć’, ‘wiedzieć’, ‘robić’ and many others. The author tries to prove that those  components belong to the semantic structure of the examined phrases with the term  child (unborn).