Undoubtedly, this issue was inspired by (and, hopefully, inspiring as regards) the reflection on the new and the non-new in grammar and poetics. While in themselves grammar and poetics are rather inconspicuous, when conjoined, the two look very promising. (...)
“If things are to go on…” – potentiality and entropy in Magdalena Tulli’s early prose

Bogumiła Kaniewska
Krzysztof Skibski
A b s t r a k t
The article concerns the specificity of the language in early prose works by Magdalena Tulli. (...)
Poetics of containers and verbal prefixes
Elżbieta Muskat-Tabakowska
A b s t r a k t
The article illustrates the thesis – which has been put forward in recent years by many linguists and literary scholars – that a closer connection between linguistics and literary studies may prove useful and inspiring for both fields. (...)
Tagi: Elżbieta Muskat-Tabakowska, fall 2021Topicalization in Cyprian Norwid. a Reconaissance
Anna Kozłowska
A b s t r a k t
Topicalization, understood as highlighting the topic of an utterance, has different syntactic, lexical, and punctuational exponents. Punctuational exponents are specific to Norwid, constituting a peculiar equivalent of suprasegmental exponents of the thematic-thematic structure in a written text. (...)
Tagi: Anna Kozłowska, fall 2021