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Polish is learnt by two types of learners; namely, heritage language learners (HLLs) and foreign language learners (FLLs). HLLs are of Polish origin and have gained their partial knowledge of language in a natural environment unlike FLLs who learn Polish in a formal institutional setting and have no Polish roots whatsoever. Lexical resources of HLLs and FLLs and their access to mental lexicon language...
The paper discusses stylistic differentiation of a 16th century hunting guide Myślistwo ptasze, w którym się opisuje sposób dostawania wszelakiego ptaka (‘Bird hunting, describing the method to catch any bird’, published 1584) by Mateusz Cygański. An analysis of the text has shown that it is possible to indicate in it examples of mutual entanglement of two stylistic registers. Due to a secondary recording...
The goal of this paper is to draw attention to the problems connected with the editing of old sources. The author shows through various analyses, to what significant extent a mere presentation of the material becomes its interpretation and imposes one or another understanding – and that it is the historical moment that determines how the source is researched. The author presents the newest studies,...
The article deals with current tendencies and changes in the Polish inflectional system. The largest number of changes can be observed in three most frequently encountered cases: Nominative, Genitive and Accusative. Changes in the remaning cases are limited to several isolated lexemes. An important characteristic of the current inflectional system of Polish is an increase in the number of indeclinable...
The goal of the paper is to evaluate the editorial decisions made by the editors of the only transcribed philological edition of Rozmyślanie przemyskie (the so-called Freiburg edition), by confronting it with the text of Život Krista Pána, a Czech apocrypha preserved in several copies the oldest of which dates back to the first half of the 14th century. The basis for the analysis are materially and...
The article reinterpretes the morphological structure of a series of Old Polabian theonyms: *Svętovitъ, *Jarovitъ, *Rujevitъ, *Borovitъ. In the literature, they are quite unanimously considered to be nominal compounds with the element *vitъ ‘dominus, potens’ but this author shows, based on a distribution analysis of the formant *-(o/e)vitъ in the Slavonic languages, that they should be viewed as suffixal...
The paper analyses expressive modifications of proper names in the current media. Based on a survey of the existing literature, it explains terms connected to the process of linguistic expressivization, and based on examples excerpted from the media between 2001 and 2015, it makes an attempt at classifying the various linguistic formal-semantic efforts. The analysis has shown that formal-semantic...
The thesis of this reply to Piotr Żmigrodzki’s pessimistic diagnosis (published in the previous issue of „LingVaria”) of Polish linguistics from the perspective of modern lexicography is that the diagnosis from the perspective of linguistic engineering must be equally pessimistic – in fact, even more so. We argue that syntax and – to some extent – semantics are developed in Poland in isolation from...
The paper concerns two interlocking phenomena of linguistic history – the stability of elements of language, which ensures a long-term communicative continuity, and the variability of the system and of the vocabulary, which is an inherent quality of every natural language. It has always been the variability that was seen as the primary indicator of a diachronic outlook on language, and the main research...
Democracy, human rights, rule of law, social cohesion, protection and promotion of cultural heritage, intercultural dialogue, and economic growth – all these areas of activity of intergovernmental organizations such as the European Union or the Council of Europe, depend on education. Which, in turn, relies on language competence defined as the ability to conduct linguistic activities necessary to...
The concept of the communication competence originating from the linguistic science is now commonly used in the glottodidactics discourse. Numerous didactic models of the concept have been elaborated to suggest contents, methods and foreign language teaching techniques for several years. Today, a document that sets language teaching standards is the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages...
Studies of Polish literature of the Middle Ages often judge and evaluate the preserved literary works. This paper uses the example of the extant copies of the song Jezus Chrystus, Bog Człowiek (‘Jesus Christ, God Human’) to show the impropriety of this procedure. In the case of Polish mediaeval texts, it is never known whether the preserved version is the original one, or the result of decisions made...
The goal of the article is to present the multilingualism in the countries emerged from former Portuguese colonies in Africa where, alongside the official Portuguese, more or less numerous native African languages are to be found together with various mixed languages. All of the analysed countries are bi- or multilingual, in each the status of Portuguese is different, and so are the number and the...
The goal of the paper is to characterize four units with a dominating appellative function: Uwaga! (‘Warning!’ / ‘Attention!’), Start! (‘Start!’), Stop! (‘Stop!’), and Dalej! (‘Carry on!’). Their nature is performative; they are excluded from the reach of negation; they cannot be presented in reported speech. The author indicates the syntactic independence of these units and their deep rooting in...
The paper describes the symbolic unit [ktoś1] dotknął [kogoś2/czegoś] in the cognitive perspective. The starting point for a semantic-cognitive analysis in the present sketch are uses of the phrase excerpted from texts from various registers of contemporary Polish. Importantly, the author describes both concretizations and metaphorical extensions of the prototypical occurrence of the analysed unit...
The author discusses non-literary sources for the history of Polish vocabulary from the period from the 16th to the 18th century. They are not always taken into account by the editors of the newest historical dictionaries, despite the fact that they contain a wealth of interesting vocabulary from various areas of everyday life of peasants and townsmen, from the history of law and judicature, trade,...
The author elaborates the thesis that pronouns, as a “pars orationis”, function as a universal system of reference in their respective linguistic code. She gives a short review of three pronominal subsystems in Polish from the point of view of their referential function: (a) definite pronouns, i.e. the basic means of referential identification; including personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns,...
The interest in problems relating to the languages of migrant societies (called heritage languages in the literature) has been steadily growing among linguists and language teachers worldwide, including in Poland, and promoting the rise of new research directions (Heritage Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Learning). The present considerations systematize and review. The paper aims to present...
The lexicography of the Slavonic nations, especially the branch of nest lexicography, has seen an impetuous development since the sixties, producing at least fifty publications, but it remains effectively unknown to French lexicography. Updated terminology, the symbols of successive parts of speech in the word-formative chain from the centre of the nest to the specific derivative, remain an achievement...
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