Cechy składniowe i semantyczne jednostek swego rodzaju i pewnego rodzaju

The analysis undertaken in the article has shown that the sequences of words swego rodzaju and pewnego rodzaju ‘kind of’ (not attested in most Polish dictionaries) consist of components which belong to the closed substitution class, it is therefore fully justified to classify them as lexical units. The analysis of the sentential positions of the phrases swego rodzaju and pewnego rodzaju suggests that they are adjectives, and the analysis of their semantic features has shown that their meaning is related to that of the particles prawie ‘almost’ and w zasadzie ‘in principle’. Furthermore, semantic explication has demonstrated that the analyzed lexical are not synonymous.