%0 Journal Article %T Transitory Categories And The Metalanguage Of Syntax %A Grochowski, Maciej %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2015 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.15.002.3488 %N Volume 132, Issue 1 %P 11-19 %K metalanguage of syntax, transitory category, the Polish language, complement, adverbial %@ 1897-1059 %D 2015 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/transitory-categories-and-the-metalanguage-of-syntax %X The first part of the paper constitutes an analysis of the term “transitory category” as presented by Adam Heinz, and a justification of the view that there is a need to eliminate the term from the metalanguage of syntax. The second part of the paper is a reconstruction of the reasoning mechanism Adam Heinz developed in order to postulate the existence of a transitory category between the complement and the adverbial. The last part of the text shows an effective method of analysing relations between parts of the sentence without a necessity to use the term “transitory category”.