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Feminine virtue. An attempt at understanding the evolution of the meaning of cnota (virtue) over the centuriesThe article is devoted to the evolution of the meaning of the Polish lexeme cnota (virtue) starting from the Old Polish to the present time. The starting point is the change in the meaning of the lexeme virtue from the ‘complex of ethical qualities’ in the Old Polish language to the ‘hymen’...
If ever the Etymological dictionary of the Cassubian literary language was to come into beingThe currently emerging Cassubian literary language is characterized by a considerable amount of artificially created neologisms. These neologisms cause us to think about the types of linguistic mechanisms, which cause the emergence of forms and meanings that do not occur in the living Cassubian dialects. The...
Theoretical contrastive studiesThe contrastive studies criticism in the 60s – 70s of the 20th century was the only basis for quite a few researchers to formulate their opinion on the studies. Although the criticism is becoming out-of date, it has not lost its inertia to disapprovingly dispose to and discourage from contrastive studies. It should be emphasized that the contrastive studies have taken...
The borrowing process of Italianisms and Venecianisms in Croatian Čakavian local languages of DalmatiaItalian and Venetian loanwords in the territory of Dalmatia were the result of complex, lengthy and intensive contacts, first Croatian-Romanian and later Croatian-Italian. In Dalmatia these are the Roman languages which have clearly indicated their presence in vocabulary and numerous works of linguists...
Slavic names for ‘eyebrows’ in light of dialectal materials and historical sources‘Eyebrows’ have in OlA only several more frequent names (that are marked on the map by areas), the remaining ones occupy small areas or are absolutely rare.The most frequent names are those connected with the core *-brъv-, that are internally very different. There is an expressive contrast/opposition between the northern...
Draft of the Montenegrin languageThe authors of the grammar of the Montenegrin language (Gramatika crnogorskoga jezika, Podgorica 2010) have constructed a linguistic system which definitely stands apart from other standards which grew out from the Shtokavian dialects. Such elements as phonemes |ś| and |ź|, potencijal imperfekta, the negative form of the verb biti, the doublets of the forms of the...
Names for instruments, tools, devices and accessories in Slavonic languagesThis article is devoted to the names for ‘instruments’, ‘tools’, ‘devices’ and ‘accessories’ in Slavonic languages. As it was described in this paper, there is no common name, which is an equivalent of Latin ‘instrumentum’ in Slavonic languages. The name, coming from Latin instrumentum, is known in the majority of the languages...
Stylistic function of word-formation formants. An outlineIn the first part of the article, the functions of formants distinguished in the selected structural and post-structural classification of derivatives are presented. In connection with the description of the stylistic function of formal indices of the word-formation origin, the proposal made by S. Grabias (1981) and A. Nagórko (2003) is discussed...
The understanding of national history and the structure of historical text. About some text-forming devices on the example of Polish historyIn the article some operational terms in historical text (here in the genre of the popular-scientific synthesis of a national history) are taken into consideration, notably: final (term by Boris Uspienski) and narration/narrative. It is demonstrated how the last...
Synonyms in Polish medical terminology at the turn of the 20th century. ReconnaissanceThe paper concerns the phenomenon of synonyms in the medical terminology. On the basis of Słownik terminologii lekarskiej polskiej (Dictionary of Polish Medical Terminology, 1881) and Słownik lekarski polski (Polish Dictionary of Medicine, 1905) the author examines (in terms of a structure, origin and chronology)...
Petrus Crescentius’s Guide-Book as a utilitarian text The article is based on the materials constituting the second edition of the Polish version of the Italian agronomist’s guide-book titled O pomnożeniu i rozkrzewieniu wszelakich Pożytkow Kśiag Dwoienaście: Ludźiom Stanu káżdego, ktorzyby śię uczciwym Gospodárstwem báwili, wielce potrzebne á pożyteczne (About Multiplication and Distribution of all...
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