Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

Appositional groups were present in the oldest monuments of the Polish language. Their examples can be found in almost every text, e.g. Nineven the city; King Porus. The subject of the article’s description is the issue of the stability of the arrangement of the members of the appositional group and the dependence of the function of the apposition itself on the position of the elements constituting the group. It has been proven that in some types of groups the order turned out to be significantly variant (e.g. father Abram vs. Abram, your father), in others it was stabilized at a high level (e.g. to this city Bethsaida vs. rarely to Gaza, this city), and occasionally there was an almost constant or constant order of elements (e.g. the name Jairus; we your people). The change in arrangement caused a functional modification in the appositional group. In the group of pagan Samaritans, the apposition was nominative, and when transformed into the sequence Samaritans pagan – descriptive. and there was a functional change between the basis of apposition and the apposition.