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The Józef Mianowski Fund was a private institution that had systematically supported Polish scholars and their research since , in the period when a Polish state did not exist. In , it announced a questionnaire to determine, in the new political situation, the state and needs of various scientic disciplines studied in Poland and by Polish scholars in Europe. Collected from the answers of scholars...
The paper presents Professor Marian Kucała (1927–2014), a dialectologist and historian of the Polish language, affiliated throughout his entire life with the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. It presents his biography and a short discussion of his most important scientific achievements, while most space is devoted to a recollection of his activity in the...
The paper presents Marian Kucała’s dialectological work in the chronological order. Particular attention has been given to his greatest dialectological achievement, the Porównawczy słownik trzech wsi małopolskich (1957; ‘A comparative dictionary of three villages in Lesser Poland’), emphasizing its superior cognitive and methodological qualities. While discussing Kucała’s various articles, we indicate...
The paper is a recollection of Professor Marian Kucała (died 2014), a dialectologist and historian of language. Particular emphasis is put on his contribution to historical lexicography and the fields of language learning and teaching (language culture in the broad sense).
In 1924, Andrzej Gawroński, a professor at the John Casimir University, a linguist, and an Indian philologist, postulated the creation of a scientific society for linguistics. The project was accepted by the then few circles of Polish linguists, and steps have been taken toward its realization. On 31st May 1925, the founding meeting was held in Lviv and formally brought to life the Polish Linguistic...
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