TY - JOUR TI - Transitory Categories And The Metalanguage Of Syntax AU - Grochowski, Maciej TI - Transitory Categories And The Metalanguage Of Syntax AB - 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”. VL - 2015 IS - Volume 132, Issue 1 PY - 2015 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 11 EP - 19 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.15.002.3488 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/transitory-categories-and-the-metalanguage-of-syntax KW - metalanguage of syntax KW - transitory category KW - the Polish language KW - complement KW - adverbial