Toward a Narrative Grammar of Polish

The present study deals with the elements of narrative grammar in a single literary corpus of contemporary Polish. As the repertoire of linguistic means that may be deployed in the construction of a coherent narrative text is extensive and heterogeneous, manifesting on different hierarchical levels of analysis, this study will profile those which I consider to be the most prominent. In recent decades, the grammar of narrative has become a major field of interest in linguistic inquiry, and no description of a language can be complete without a detailed analysis of its narrative subsystem. Moreover, as narrative grammar constitutes an important bridge between linguistic and literary analysis, its findings may contribute to the wide field of literary theory, particularly to narratological research.