Valence as the Basis of the Systematization of the Syntactical Types of Inflected Particips

Abstract

The author᾽s attention is focused on one of the two modes in which one can describe the syntactical functions of inflected particips in contemporary Polish. One of them is grounded on traditional grammar and was presented in the author᾽s MA thesis: A Syntactical Description of Inflected Polish Particips; The second one, on the basis of the theory of valence, has been broadely discussed in the present paper.

The author proves that in the light of the theory of valence the descriptionis more synthetic and does not require a double analysis of the same groups. Here the particip could be treated as an element particularly primary and its syntactic classification was based on the number of complements.