Grammatical categories in the works of Roman Laskowski

Grochowski, Maciej

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Title: Grammatical categories in the works of Roman Laskowski

Abstract:

Five years have passed since Professor Roman Laskowski’s death. The author can recall the Professor’s outstandingachievements in the field of Polish grammar and methodology of linguistics. The first part of thearticle discusses Laskowski’s theory of parts of speech, as well as his original and innovative proposals infunctional classifications of Polish lexemes. The second part of the review focuses on Laskowski’s achievementsin research on morphological categories related to the inflected parts of speech. Laskowski’s mostimportant works on both verbal and nominal categories are also presented in the article.