O wyrażeniach na krok i o krok. Przyczynek składniowo-semantyczny

The article provides an analysis of the units of description with forms na krok and o krok, as they are described by general Polish dictionaries and dictionaries of set phrases. The analysis aims to distinguish all lexicological units in Polish are constituted by the aforementioned sequences. The author singles out one multi-elemental lexical unit of contemporary Polish ([ktoś] jest (o) krok od [czegoś] ‘[somebody] is close/near to [something]’), while all the remaining expressions are considered to be syntactical constructions.