E-SYNTAX: AN ATTEMPT TO SYNTACTIC CHARACTERISATION OF INTERNET CHATS (E-Syntaksa, czyli próba charakterystyki syntaktycznej jezyka pogawedek internetowych)

The article aims at analysing a language of internet chats on syntactic level. The author compares syntactic structures of internet chats and phone talks. The analysis indicates that in a case of a polilog as well as on a level of elementary utterance internet chats shows the same syntactic tendencies as phone talks. The language of chats may be situated on a border of phone talk, written letters and spoken language but the syntactic 'core' remains generally unchanged.