Streszczenie
The aim of this paper is to propose an extension of Bańczerowski’s phonotactic theory
and introduce a research project on Mandarin Chinese segmental linguistics in the proposed
theoretical framework. The proposal includes a brief summary of Bańczerowski’s original
framework and a more detailed description of its extension to various levels of linguistic
analysis. The application of the consequent extended framework to the analysis of the
phonetics, phonology (phonemic and syllabic levels), morphology and writing system of
Mandarin Chinese is proposed in the main part of the paper.