Kilka uwag o archaicznych elementach składniowych w tekstach Cypriana Norwida

• Authors: Anna Kozłowska

Title variants

EN

A few remarks on archaic syntactic elements in Cyprian Norwid’s texts

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the main types of obsolete syntactic structures that are present in Cyprian Norwid's writings: a lack of identity of the agent of a participle elliptical sentence and of a super-ordinate clause (in this case the archaic character is only one of hypotheses explaining Norwid's practice of building sentences); non-agent constructions with verbs containing się (reflexive verbs) fulfilling the function of predicate connected with the nominative case by the relation of concord; harmonizing relations of quantity ad sensum; gender discordances in a sentence's main relation; a nominal predicative word in the nominative case; the presence of the accusativus cum infinitive construction; numerous peculiarities of the rection (especially the predilection for synthetic constructions) and the use of old functions of grammatical cases; obsolete conjunctions, personal forms of the predicate in clauses of purpose and other subordinate utterances starting with the conjunctions by, aby, żeby, ażeby, iżby, byle. The feature that connects Norwid's language with the old Polish language is also the multitude of component utterances in a compound sentence that is accompanied by a relatively loose connection between syntactic elements. Some of Norwid's uses of obsolete constructions result from an intentional stylization that is first of all supposed to lead to obtaining a certain hieratical character of the text; however, most old forms show the peculiar character of the idiolect typical of the author of Vade-mecum himself; he used archaic structures probably under the influence of his readings, of foreign languages and regional variants of Polish, because of the rhythm of the text, and sometimes also because of his own carelessness, or even his lack of proper abilities to build sentences.

Keywords

PL

składnia Cypriana Norwida; składnia XIX wieku; archaizmy składniowe; konstrukcje przestarzałe; język Cypriana Norwida

EN

Cyprian Norwid’s language; Cyprian Norwid’s syntax; 19th century syntax; syntactic archaisms; obsolete constructions

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Studia Norwidiana
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 99-117

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Anna Kozłowska

• Instytut Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

16729393