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Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego > 2019 > 75 > 73-86
Artykuł przedstawia interferencje semantyczne, do których doszło na styku łaciny średniowiecznej i staropolszczyzny w obrębie leksemów opisujących usankcjonowany prawem i zwyczajem akt pokory, to jest publiczne upokorzenie się winowajcy, najczęściej zabójcy, połączone z prośbą o przebaczenie. Są to: humiliatio, humilitas, a dodatkowo homagium, venia) oraz staropolska pokora. Po dokonaniu diachronicznej...
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In 1963, Stanisław Urbańczyk attempted to investigate the problem of the earliest East Slavic borrowings in Polish. He presented a list of Old Polish imports from the East Slavic languages comprising 150 lexical units. Fifty years later, Wiesław Witkowski, another Slavicist from Cracow, extended the list of East Slavic borrowings included in Słownik Staropolski (‘Old Polish Dictionary’) to 199 units...
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The paper describes adverbial numeral expressions used to quantify events, to indicate their specific number, that can be found in the largest text of Polish Middle Ages, i.e. in Rozmyślanie przemyskie. Based on the traditional division of numerals, the article identifies multiplicative, ordinal, and manifold numerals, and indicates their function in specific contexts. The analyzed text, even though...
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The article examines how the inclusion of a theological perspective can change the interpretation of certain provisions and linguistic phenomena. Awareness of and knowledge about the sources of Rozmyślania Przemyskie, gives us the ability to reconstruct the process of formation of mediaeval texts. Some sources of Rozmyślania, the Scripture and the writings of the Fathers of the Church, are also fundamental...
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In this paper we present works on an electronic version of a dictionary of Old Polish. As a starting point of the construction of the dictionary we adopted an existing dictionary in a paper form. We describe all subsequent stages of the process of converting the paper source into fully functional electronic form. These stages consist in scanning the paper source followed by OCR and correction of its...
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The transformation of a meaning of prostotaThis article is dedicated to the evolution of one of prostota lexeme meaning (and prostoć, prostość as well) – its human mental sphere significance. The analysis (definitions and examples) expands over the Polish language dictionary since its beginning till modernity. There were two main meanings of a lexeme prostota from the Old Polish till the end of the...
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Język - Szkoła - Religia > 2013 > 8 > 1 > 61-69
The subject of the article is the analysis of the archaic and obsolete vocabulary in Jan Pawel Woronicz’s 19th-Century Hymn do Boga. The vocabulary of the poem can be divided into two groups: 1)Vocabulary cited by Doroszewski’s Dictionary of the Polish Language (SJPD) - 77.4%; 2)Vocabulary not cited in SJPD - 22.6%. The majority (69.3%) of vocabulary cited by SJPD are obsolete, archaic and historic...
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The article describes heterogeneous appositional phrases as attributive possessive expression in the Old Polish, e.g. 'posel pana Szczepanow' (when adjectival modifier accommodates to the constituent member of a compound noun phrase and subordinate noun stands in genitive). The authoress, on the basis of the Great Poland's oaths of the 14th and 15th centuries, shows different types of such syntactic...
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Poradnik Jezykowy (The Linguistic Guide) > 2008 > 1(650) > 16-25
In the article, the authoress focuses on the presence of ideology in signification process. Her presumptions are based on the following theses by J. Fiske on ideology in meaning: (1) ideology is a process of social generation of meanings; (2) every kind of cognition is social and perspective, i.e. it occurs though acquisition of the point of view represented by the dominant group; (3) one of the key...
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The author proves once again that the history of lexical items is the history of lexical fields. The analysis is based on extensive material, excerpted also from less known Old Polish sources. Polilexy (with clearly bounded centre and the peripheries) is typical for the history of the field of 'ACCUSATIO'. The elements were changing over the years. In the Old Polish the centre was dominated by mourning...
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The paper tries to answer the question whether the first creators of the national Polish literature might have known native poetical system. The author demonstrates the continuity of folk tradition and points out certain phenomena characteristic for folk poetry that might have contributed to literary texts at that time. He underlines the lack of cultural diversity of Old Polish society and shows elements...
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Poradnik Jezykowy (The Linguistic Guide) > 2007 > 7(646) > 30-40
As the analyzed material shows, sentences with an accompanying subject appeared as early as in Old Polish. The verb in such sentences came to double consensus with the subject about its form. When the person named by the accompanying subject was of minor importance, the verb adjusted its form with the main subject (e.g. Ojciec z synem wszedl - The father and the son came in). However, when the accompanying...
