Toward a Narrative Grammar of Polish

• Druk: Warszawa, 2008
• Autor: Lea Sawicki
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Studium elementów gramatyki narratywnej w popularnonaukowych opowiadaniach Stanisława Lema Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie. Zawiera wnikliwą i nowatorską analizę podstawowych środków gramatycznych języka polskiego używanych w budowie tekstu narracyjnego i określających zjawiska tekstualne związane z odbiorem anatomii opowiadania przez czytelnika.

Analiza została przeprowadzona w formie zazębiających się badań nad zasobem wykładników gramatycznej budowy tekstu, przyczyniających się do powstania spójnego, wielowarstwowego i bogatego pod względem artystycznym tekstu narracyjnego, takich jak: czas, aspekt, schematy składniowe, współrzędność i podrzędność składniowa, partykuły i spójniki oraz szyk zdania. Wielopłaszczyznowe ujęcie ukazuje wzajemne oddziaływanie literackich i językowych elementów, tworząc obraz sztuki narracyjnej Stanisława Lema i zarazem obraz struktury językowej polszczyzny.

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-235-1226-4
• ISBN druku: 978-83-235-0428-3
• Liczba stron: 178

Foreword      9

Chapter One: Introduction      11

Chapter Two: The structure of a story: analysis of the running text      15

Chapter Three: Textual units: patterns and boundary signals      51

1. Text segments      51
2. Initial sentences      56
3. Settings      58
3.1. Local settings      58
3.2. Temporal settings      59
4. Theme maintenance vs. theme shift-61
5. Flashbacks      64
6. Digressions      65
7. Secondary narrative      67
8. Conclusions      68

Chapter Four: Participants and Narrator      69

1. Participants      69
2. Pirx as participant: narrator or focalizor?      70
3. Non-characters      76
4. Conclusions      79

Chapter Five: Principal means of text structuring      81

1. Introductory remarks      81
2. Grounding-81
3. Aspect      83
3.1. Aspect and 'event sequencing'      84
3.2. Non-plot-advancing segments: aspect and other features      87
3.3. Imperfective aspect as participant characterization      89
3.4. Imperfective in non-descriptive segements      90
3.5. Imperfective as 'off-plane event sequencer'      91
4. Tense      94
4.1. The past as unmarked narrative tense      94
4.2. Temporal adverbs in narrative      95
4.3. The present tense in narrative      96
4.4. A periphrastic 'prospective' narrative tense      100
4.5. Tense in subordinate clauses      101
4.6. Tense-switching      101
5. Subordinate clauses and grounding      102
5.1. 'When' – clauses in narrative      102
5.2. Content clauses in narrative      104
5.3. Relative clauses in narrative      105
5.4. Other subordinate clauses in narrative      106
6. Recapitulative abstract substantives      107
7. Conclusions      109

Chapter Six: Linkage      110

1. Coordination of predications      110
2. Connecting particles      111
3. The particle a      112
3.1. The particle a as a marker of juxtaposition of the content of two predications      112
3.2. Parallel statements connected by a      115
3.3. Commentative parenthetic clauses with a      116
3.4. The particle a in monologue and dialogue text segments      117
3.5. The particle a with więc      118
4. The particle i      119
4.1. The particle i connecting logically ordered predications with a common subject      119
4.1.1. The particle i in coordinated perfective clauses      119
4.1.2. Clauses coordinated by the particle i with non-durative, iterative imperfectives      120
4.1.3. Clauses coordinated by the particle i with durative, non-iterative imperfectives      121
4.1.4. The particle i connecting logically ordered predications with different subjects      123
4.2. The particle i as a highlighting particle      125
4.2.1. The particle i marking a turning point in the narrative      125
4.2.2. The particle i as a focus marker      126
5. Adversative particles: ale      127
5.1. Unsuccessful or unfulfilled actions, failed attempts      127
5.2. Unexpected outcomes      129
5.3. The particle ale in clauses following expressions of states of affairs      130
5.4. The particle ale in sentences with evaluative stance      131
5.5. The particle ale in dialogue      132
5.6. The particle ale in free indirect discourse      134
5.7. The particle ale in clauses marking a narrative break      136
5.8. The particle ale as a focus marker      137
6. Coordination of sentence constituents      138
7. Summary and conclusions      139

Chapter Seven: Constituent sequencing      145

1. Introductory remarks      145
1.1. Working definitions      145
1.1.1. Theme and rheme      145
1.1.2. Subject and Predicate      147
1.1.3. Agent      148
2. Constituent sequencing in verbal sentences      148
2.1. Basic word order in Polish?      148
2.2. The occurrence of the pronominal subject      149
2.3. The position of the subject      152
2.3.1. The position of the subject with verbs of weak predication      152
2.3.2. The position of the subject with verbs of speech      154
2.3.3. Expanded subjects of verbal and non-verbal sentences      157
2.4. Constituent sequencing in digression closing      158
2.5. Constituent sequencing in presets      159
3. Distribution of information in nominal sentences      162
3.1. The sequence of to and być      166
3.2. A note on number/gender congruence in the nominal sentence      172
4. Conclusions      172

References     174