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Dialectal suffixes -acz [-oc], -ak [-ok], -ula and -ka in zagórzański dialect usually form pejorative names of people. Among female names, a special example is the suffix -ula, which is either non-existent in other dialects, or has a different function (forms names of wives or cows). By means of the words built with the use of these suffixes, language users make assessments and express critical attitude...
The subject of research in the following article are the names of fishing devices, presented by Józef Weyssenhoff in his novel entitled Puszcza (1913). From the rich resources of lexical and semantic regionalisms, the author chose three names: bołt, dorożka and trehubica, documented in the work and related to the topics of shooting and hunting – the subjects that the author was well acquainted with...
This paper is dedicated to the description of the idiomatic expression zamienić się w słup soli in contemporary Polish. First of all, the origin of this word combination was presented, and next – its lexicographic condition. Moreover, phraseological modifications were discussed (exchange, development, shortening and regulation), which a given idiomatic expression undergoes. Linguistic material was...
The aim of the research was to analyse the rate of speech of physiologically and dementially ageing people with the following parameters in mind: the rate of speech and the rate of articulation, the ratio of pauses within the speech and their total duration, proper pauses and semi-filled pauses. The research data has been analysed with the use of Audacity software. Shapiro-Wilk and Mann-Whitney tests...
The article concerns the writer’s identity in the old scientific text in the light of Janusz Korczak’s work How to love a child. A child in the family. Attention was also paid to the roles which the author plays in the text. He is identical with the author of the work and he is a doctor, educator and philosopher. The article also discusses the emotional involvement of the author and his pedagogical...
The article shows 12 dialectal phrasemes appearing in numerous variants concerning phonology (e.g. żarło/zarło), inflection (e.g. oko/oczy), word formation (e.g. woza/wózka) and lexis (most numerous). Euphemisms are interesting types (e.g. diabli/bogowie, gówno/ kompot). The analysis of numerous variants of a given phraseme confirms A.M. Lewicki’s thesis (1976) that it is the semantic and syntactic...
Professor Józefa Kobylińska, who was investigating her local dialect and Władysław Orkan’s language, paid attention to the writing on one of the rocks on Turbacz – Koldras Lacki, mentioned in W roztokach (1903), and associated it with the surname Koldras, found in southern Małopolska. It might have been used to denote a Roma from Kelderasz tribe, the people who made a living out of coppersmithing...
The paper is dedicated to some selected units of biblical origin in the Polish language, namely fixed word combinations (idiomatic expressions). The author is trying to answer the question whether the collection of such units has the qualities of a closed set, or demonstrates a contemporary tendency to multiply its resources. What is essential for this description is the division into primary and...
Wincenty Pol was a writer and a learned geographer. His linguistic interests encompassed the origin of the Polish language linked with the history of Slavs, onomastics, the dialects of Polish and the need to legally protect writing. Pol was convinced that language needs to be studied in relation to nature, culture and human work.
The material basis of the paper are the names of Polish female associations from the 30s of the 20th century. The analysis involves components used to expose feminine qualities – general names (kobieta, pani, niewiasta – ‘woman, lady’), as well as detailed ones, which were categorised according to the information they contain. These are the elements of the world, which in addition to gender, constitute...
The article aims to present whether and how the phraseme to be reborn || rise (like a Phoenix / phoenix) from the ashes exists today in various texts of culture (recorded after 2000 in the National Corpus of Polish, drawn from the web and elsewhere), how it is present in various registers of communication and whether this petrified lexical unit is undergoing any changes. The analysis is preceded by...
Taking a synthetic approach, the author of the paper presents the explanations of the etymology of the geographical name Gniezno, which is present in historical literature and linguistic works, and has been the object of interest since Middle Ages for chroniclers, and later for historiographers and linguists. Moreover, the author discusses the form of this toponym, explains the changes it underwent,...
The article concerns the semantic development of the compositum obieżyświat ‘a person who likes to travel a lot’. It is interesting that the first attestation of the word in Old Polish (from the 15 th century) had a botanical meaning ‘Bupleurum rotundifolium L.’. The form obieżyświat was then the translation of the Old Latin plant names garowaga and girambula meaning ‘something that moves around’...
The article presents a great number of emotional words in 8 romantic poems by 7 poets. The collection contains almost 1100 words, among which dominate negative words. Some of these emotional words are old and disused in contemporary readers’ point of view. Neologisms (particularly in poems by Norwid and Krasiński), household words, localisms, dialectal and disdainful words are present in romantic...
The paper contains some remarks on the titles (ideonyms) of the works by Jan Wiktor (1890–1967, mainly literary ones). The writer, who came from Radomysl (on the San River), was socially-oriented. He spent most of his life far away from his hometown. He was a resident of Cracow by choice. He had special affection for Szczawnica and Pieniny. He is particularly remembered for his loyalty to recognised...
1968 saw the publication of Józefa Kobylińska’s monograph entitled Rozwój form dopełniacza liczby pojedynczej rzeczowników rodzaju męskiego w języku polskim [The development of the forms of the genitive singular of masculine nouns in the Polish language]. Whoever intends to write about the Polish masculine genitive singular cannot neglect this publication, especially so because the selection of the...
The material basis of the paper is an unpublished collection of 47 sonnets by Wincenty Byrski, a poet from Podbeskidzie region. The author of the study discusses the language level of the poems (mainly lexis) in order to reconstruct the picture of Cracow preserved in the texts. According to the analysis, the poet used vocabulary and morphological forms which were known in the Polish language in previous...
The article is a presentation of the previously undiscussed prayer book Dworskie nabożeństwo, published in 1781 in Kalisz, a city which has a long tradition of publishing, mainly connected with the activities of Jesuits. Currently there are 6 known copies of this anonymously published prayer book (commissioned for print “by a priest of the former order of The Society of Jesus”), including the one...
The article is a fragment of the research project Names as the basis of Polish toponyms, conducted in the Department of Onomastics in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków. It is also a continuation of the discussion on the opportunities of using the category of gender in onomastics. The aim of the text is to highlight the presence of several Christian female names in structures of Polish toponyms,...
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