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Towards an etymology of some old-Russian chronicle toponyms (12th–16th century)In this article, new etymologies are proposed for several Old Russian chronicle toponyms: Vĭlěna: Slav. *vĭl- 'surge'; Vŭrgolŭ: the onomatopoeic stem vŭrg-, richly represented in Russian dialects; Losna: *lŭskĭnŭ(jĭ) 'shining'; Neščerda: the prefix Ne- + the frequent Baltic toponymical stem skerd-; Tunegŭ: *touk-n-'fertile'...
West Slavic languages and English loanwords in the last two decades – an overview of grammar, lexicon, pragmatics and the socio-cultural contexThe recent decades, as is generally acknowledged, have been a period of profound changes in Central and Eastern Europe. These changes are reflected in the lexicon. Nominative needs have caused a remarkable vocabulary growth, with loanwords constituting a numerous...
Visually irresistible, but essentially unbearable, or on some of Czech adjectives and adverbsThe present contribution from the field of comparative Slavonic word for mation deals with a specific feature of the Czech language, namely its frequent (in comparison to other Slavonic tongues) use of adjectives of passive possibility (impossibility), which in Czech usually assume the suffix -telný (or ne-telný),...
Is wihajster a name for an artifact? A lexicological studyThe basic focal points of this article are the features of the word wihajster – both those inter- (grammar and semantics) and extralinguistic (etymology, orthography, pragmatics). Moreover, the article mentions other expressions characteristic of regional varieties of Polish which share some similar semantic features. The presented semantic...
Can the presently created Kashubian literary language and the currently formed new Breton language be objects of consideration for researchers of the linguistic picture of the world?The influence of the Polish language in conjunction with education and the mass media have brought about in the second half of the 20th century a growth of Polish-Kashubian bilingualism and a decline of Kashubian dialects...
A historian's second afterword to Resztki Słowian na południowym wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego by Alexander HilferdingThe purpose of the Second Afterword is to emphasise that current interpretations of Resztki Słowian by linguists are exceptionally uncritical and, consequently, one-sided. I do not find Alexander Hilferding's account useless, but I believe that, as any other subjective report, it requires...
Polish choronymes in Collection of Kingdoms, Provinces, Capitals, Rivers and Mountains by Józef Uszak Kulikowski (1746)This paper presents the alphabetic Latin-Polish-French dictionary of geographical names entitled Zebranie Krolestw, Prowincyi, Miast stołecznych, Rzek y Gor (Collection of Kingdoms, Provinces, Capitals, Rivers and Mountains), written by Józef Uszak Kulikowski (1746). On the one hand,...
Syntactic influences of Kashubian dialects on local Polish speechThis article is the result of field research conducted in the Kashubian language area. The analysis of the Polish texts acquired during the research showed that on the syntactic plane there is an interference of the Kashubian dialects in the Polish language. As a result of the Kashubian dialects’ impact on spoken Polish, the following...
Alfurkan tatarski by Piotr Czyżewski – description of the old print (graphy with some phonetic aspects) This article discusses Alfurkan tatarski [Tartar Al Furqan] published by Piotr Czyżewski in 1617, which probably is the second expanded edition of the work. Based upon analysis of two copies of this early printing work, it presents some graphic features of the book. Phonetic and dialectal phenomena, which...
Word formation activity and the phenomenon of loanwords as exemplified by dual aspect verbs (in Polish-Slovakian interlinguality)The conducted analysis of dual aspect verbs (based on selected linguistic material) and contrasting them with the state observed a quarter or half century ago do not show interdependencies between the existence of the group of genetically foreign dual aspect verbs – which...
Some remarks on Polish and Slovene analytic causatives paraphrased by adjectivesThe article is devoted to the analytic causative predicates. The data is collected from Polish and Slovene. The basic methodological device is a paraphrase which obligatorily includes an adjective. Special attention is paid to operator verbs, which often have their own semantic features. Some of them are verbs of transfer,...
Language and the law. Controversies and manipulation in Ukrainian parliamentary discourseThis article presents the linguistic resources which Ukrainian parliament members use to form the controversial communiqués. I try to find out what characteristic phrases indicate manipulation of information. Examples are selected from speeches of different political groups of the seventh convocation in the Ukrainian...
The development of anthropocentric theories in modern linguisticsThe article highlights the unique position of anthropocentric theories within modern linguistics. To exemplify tendencies in the forming of idiolectic language theories in their functional aspects, I analyse the gnoseological approach in Alexander Kiklevich's linguistics. Modern linguistics differentiates between anthropocentric and...
Internationalisms as a source of equonymy in Slavic technical terminology (on the basis of Polish, Russian and Bulgarian material)The article presents one of the main sources of Slavic synonymy in technical terms – the phenomenon of internationalization. On the basis of a comprehensive set of Polish, Russian and Bulgarian terms of the range of machinery (construction and operation) it was found that...
Syntactic interferences in isolated dialects (on the basis of the Russian dialect of the Suwałki–Augustów region Old Believers and the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina in Siberia)The aim of the article is to discuss Polish syntactic interferences in the Russian dialect used by the Old Believers and, by analogy, Russian interferences in the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina...
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