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The article aims at introducing the activity of the famous Polish linguist, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. He defended Slovaks, who, having no statehood, were deprived of national and cultural rights at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Slovaks appreciated it and they reprinted extensive fragments of his work 'Slovaks and the crown of saint Stephan'. As a result Hungarian state authorities...
The article aims at presenting ways of naming a perception of taste and a sense of taste in the history of Polish language together with semantic changes of chosen lexemes. The comparative analysis of a word 'smak' (taste) in Slavonic, German and Roman languages and the fragments of a general confession from 14 and 15 centuries proves that in Old Polish a word 'ukuszenie' functioned and it was a 'Slavonic'...
The authoress presents new idioms containing a word 'kapelusz', belonging into two families based on phrases:' wyciagnal kogos/cos jak krolika z kapelusza' and 'ktos chodzi z kapeluszem' (someone pull out something like a rabbit from a hat / someone is walking with a hat). She analyses metaphorical motivation of the idioms referring to two schematically imagined situations, interpreted as a source...
(Title in Polish - 'Znaczenie prestizu jezyka a pokoleniowe zróznicowanie poziomu inferencji w polszczyznie staroobrzedowców w warunkach rosyjsko-polskiego bilingwizmu z dyglosja'). Russians Old Believers living in Poland in Suwalki-Augustow region constitute a bilingual society. Their bilingualism is connected with diglossia. The domination of one of the codes is determined by the factors characterizing...
The article aims at describing the situation of Polish language in Lithuania in the beginning of 20 century as it was described in the novel 'Unia' by J. Weyssenhoff. The authoress tries to evaluate credibility of this source and its value for studies of Polish language spoken in Kowno region. She reminds that the novel (published in1910) was written when the Polish-Lithuanian conflict was growing...
The article contributes to the studies of Polish language in Lithuania (Kowno region). The authoress analyses letters of the 19th century historian and lexicographer, Szymon Dowkont written to the other contemporary historian Teodor Narbutt. She considers phonetic, inflectional and syntactic examples. As a result she has distinguished in the studied language: 1) regional features typical for the dialect...
The aim of the study is to describe dialectal phonetic features of Polish language spoken by the students of Polish high schools in Lithuania. The study is based on the research undertaken in the regions with high percentage of the Poles (regions: wilenski, solecznicki, trocki, swiecianski), and the records were done in the years 1998-2000 in official situation during the lessons or half-official...
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...
The first part of the paper revisits some of the well established arguments against treating passive as a grammatical category in Polish. More precisely, it is argued that there is no passive transformation. Firstly, a sentence, such as '(Szkola) jest zbudowana', does not have a precise active counterpart, for it may express a form of present perfect and, thus, temporal meaning which is absent from...
In this article the authoress presents the properties of a mathematical model for the frequency distribution function describing the Krylov law. She also outlines the uniform procedure to verify the law. She found the sufficient number of lexemes to be gathered for the empirical data to be convergent to a certain function and she points out to how they may be gathered.
The author of the paper aims at providing a description of lexical units containing the segment 'odkryc' with respect to their structure and meaning. The method of analysis is based on putting forward hypotheses in the form of analytical implications and subjecting them to falsification by bringing them down to contradiction. The content of the paper focuses on issues relating to reconstruction of...
The Old Believers living in Poland are descendants of Russian Old Believers who did not accept the Patriarch Nikon's reforms in the second half of the 17th century. The villages Gabowe Grady and Bor are the biggest centres of the Old Believers in Poland. As a result of Polish-Russian bilingualism, we can observe not only the influence of Polish on the Russian dialect, but also the influence of the...
The article presents a vocabulary used by Lithuanian writer, Balys Astikas, in his short memoirs from the Polish-Russian war. The story was written in a variant of north borderland Polish. The specific vocabulary consists of 46 units. We find here elements of foreign origin (19 units: 13 from Russian, 3 form Lithuanian, 2 from Byelorussian and 1 from Ukrainian), elements no longer used (16) and the...
In this article the origin of the perfective participle with the '-(w)szy' ending in the Polish language of the northeast borderlands is discussed. The author, quoting similar cases concerning this participle from the Polish dialects of the Suwalki, Punsk and Sejny regions, suggests the historical influence of the Lithuanian language on his origin. In addition, the fieldwork research carried by the...
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