La (in?)utilità della categoria di soggetto/oggetto nella grammatica italiana. A proposito di un presupposto grammaticale di Witold Mańczak
The Use(ful/less)ness of the Subject/Object Category in Italian Grammar. About Some Grammatical Assumptions by Witold Mańczak

Summary/Abstract: Among the main assumptions of the grammatical methodology of Witold Mańczak, one of the most internationally renowned Polish linguists, is the uselessness of elements of logical sentence analysis, such as subject or object, for the production (synthesis) of a correct sentence, and therefore for grammaticography, understood as the elaboration of grammars, in general. With this article, I will attempt to demonstrate the invalidity of such a hypothesis, starting from the grammatical rules presented in the Gramatyka włoska [Italian Grammar] by the Cracovian author, which concern certain aspects of the use of relative pronouns (art. +) quale and cui. As we will see, it is difficult to formulate precise linguistic rules regarding the formation of appositive relative clauses introduced by (art. +) quale or clauses in which the so-called genitive cui (or cui of specification) is used, without having to use the categories of subject and object. In the course of my argument, I will also clarify some bibliographical issues that concern both Mańczak’s entire work and the sources that inspired him in his Italian grammar.

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