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About Slavic soul in beliefs, culture and language on the example of Shtokavian idiomsThe article is devoted to the issue of soul in language and culture of the Slavs. Analysis includes presentation of the phenomenon of soul in old Slavic beliefs and religion, before adoption of Christianity. Many of these beliefs is still present in Slavic culture and language, despite the acceptance of Christian...
The Yugoslav NewspeakIn the article the issue of a language of the Yugoslav communists – called here after Orwell the totalitarian Newspeak – is taken into consideration. It aims at finding similarities and differences between the Polish and Yugoslav Newspeak basing on analysis of discourses of the Yugoslav dictator – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav historiography and political slogans. In the first section...
On the double meaning and single evaluation of the Polish lexeme czystość as compared with selected synonyms and antonyms This article is dedicated to evolution of both meanings of lexeme czystość – physical, meaning cleanness and ethical meaning purity with its’ evaluation. Both of them orginate from Praslavic language. For better understanding of its’ meanings adjective czysty, antonyms nieczystość,...
Polish prepositions and analytic tendencies in Indo-European languagesAs analytic tendencies in Indo-European languages intensify, grammatical forms and lexemes become generalised. In the realm of prepositions, we observe not only semantical generalisation of a limited set of units (including at least de and à) but also their grammaticalization. Both these prepositions: 1. can perform grammatical...
Researching the manuscript of Wielkopolska Land Book: a transliteration problemThe paper discusses the fourteenth century use of minuscule in Polish and Latin records. The present analysis of the book’s excerpts shows that the use of majuscule letters is, generally speaking, determined by the individual writing style. One of the authors employed the letters at the beginning of proper names, but at...
The Czech Verb zdát se in Translation into Polish Language (Based on Studies Using the Parallel Corpus „InterCorp”)The article presents the possibilities of translating the Czech verb zdát se into the Polish language and introduces the parallel corpus (InterCorp) as a tool for searching equivalents. The analysis of the data from a parallel corpus shows a series of possibilities of understanding and...
Searching for masculinity in linguistic discourse. Ideas of Czech language created by the national movementThe article concerns itself with answering the question what was the relationship between the concept of masculinity and the Czech language included in the linguistic and literary production of the Czech national revival. Examining the ideas of the gender of language seems particularly justified...
The punctuation of the hymn-book Jesličky. Staré nové písničky by Fridrich BrideliusThe article is focused on analysis of the punctuation of the Early Modern Czech printed hymn-book Jesličky. Staré nové písničky (1658), which was collected by Fridrich Bridelius. The analysis is concerned both with the punctuation inventory in the hymn-book and with the rules that influence their distribution. The...
Instrumental of affirmation in selected Slavic languagesIn the present article I argue that apart from the genitive of negation, Slavic also makes use of the instrumental of affirmation – but its recognition requires a more sophisticated, function-oriented analytic model, firmly grounded in the real linguistic usage and sensitive to semantic conditioning – such as cognitive semantics. The discussion...
The symbolism of the noun baran (‘ram’) used to denominate people. The influence of religion on the development of the personified meaning of an appellativeThe paper describes the semantic changes of the meaning of the Polish appellative baran (ram) used to denote a person. The core meanings of the anthropomorphized noun in the sixteenth century were established on the basis of religious texts and...
Some problems of the dialectal vocabulary – the Polish folk names of dragonfliesThis paper deals with the Polish folk names of a dragonfly – an insect belonging to the order Odonata. Over 90 Polish dialectal names were gathered and analyzed here. The motivation of these names has been discussed in this paper. Moreover, the information about the geographical occurrence of these lexemes is given here...
On Adam Stanisław Krasiński’s forgotten Słownik synonimów polskich and its predecessorsThe paper consists of two parts. The first one covers characteristics of dictionaries (dated from XVIth to XIXth century), groups of synonyms regarding mainly the Latin (e.g. Gradus ad Parnassum), which also include equivalents of national languages (especially the Calagius three-language dictionary was examined...
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