Kilka uwag o udziale zjawisk gramatycznych w tworzeniu językowego obrazu świata

Abstract

The article looks at grammar in the construction of linguistic worldview (LWV): the problem is important inasmuch as most researchers tend to only focus on lexical issues. By adopting a broad understanding of grammar as a body of mechanisms that make language possible, the author claims that the Polish linguistic worldview draws from the world-formational system (it allows for the emergence of new words and organizes the lexicon by arranging it into conceptual categories with formal linguistic exponents). The inflectional and syntactic systems, in turn, contribute to the LWV much less: the only grammatical categories with a semantic function relevant in this respect are number, gender, tense, modality and conjunctions, which code relationships between entities and phenomena.