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Etymologisation in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Idiostyle (Poems “My Shell”, “Minute”, “The Crevasse”)This article considers etymologisation in lyrical works by Marina Tsvetaeva on the example of her three poems from 1923: “My Shell” (“Rakovina”), “Minute” (“Minuta”) and “The Crevasse” (“Rasshchelina”). In this case, etymologisation concerns first of all the words which appear as titles of these poems. The...
The Social Status of a Merchant in the Russian Language: Nominative and Characterising FeaturesThis article describes connotations of a noun which is a denomination of social status. In the Russian language, the lexico-semantic group “social stratification” is directly related to the hierarchy of legally defined social estates. The study analyses interpretations of meanings of the personal noun kupets...
Musical Lexis in Russian-Polish Lexicography: Present State and Users’ NeedsIn order to meet the expectations of receivers, who come across vocabulary from various areas in their everyday life, general bilingual dictionaries include lexis from many different fields. This article analyses one such group in Russian-Polish lexicography: musical lexis. The analysis offered here considers translation pairs...
Memory of the New Martyrs of Butovo in Journalistic DiscourseThis article attempts to define the place of the New Martyrs of Butovo on the Russian map of memory. Basing on the assumption that memory is linguistic in nature, the author analyses texts excerpted from the Russian-language Internet (the Runet) and high-circulation press. She notes that the memorialisation of the New Martyrs of Butovo is...
A Description of Joachim Lelewel’s Familial Language Concerning the Family Social Space (on the Basis of Letters to His Loved Ones)This article is a contribution to research on Joachim Lelewel’s familial language. The study is limited to a range of linguistic phenomena concerning the family social space, and considers the two-volume collection of his letters from many different places written in various...
Lexical Borrowings in Dialectal Phraseology of the Chernivtsi Region: The Diachronic AspectThis article is devoted to the analysis of dialectal phraseological units with foreign components (Romanian, German, Polish, Hebrew, Hungarian) recorded in the dictionary entitled “Phraseologisms and Paroemias of the Chernivtsi Region” (Фразеологізми та паремії Чернівеччини, 2017) from the point of view of their...
Motivation Models of the Names of Intellectual Processes and Properties (on the Material of East Slavic Languages)This article offers an analysis of motivation models of the names of intellectual processes, properties and states in East Slavic languages at different stages of their development. Focusing on the Belarusian and Ukrainian material, the study adopts the approach of diachronic cognitive...
Old Czech Summaries in Fifteenth-Century BiblesThis article focuses on some non-biblical texts accompanying Old Czech Bible translations in the Middle Ages. The oldest translation of the entire Bible into Old Czech, which comes from the 1350s, included a particular type of non-biblical texts: prefaces to biblical books. The following Old Czech revisions and new translations of the Bible were provided,...
Forms of Representation of Propositional Argument in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian Expressions Based on the Mental PredicateThis article offers a discussion of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian mental verbs from the perspective of syntactic valence. The author examines grammatical forms of propositional argument in sentences with mental verbs which represent predicate-argument structure P (x, q). All...
On a Certain Phonetic Feature of Wymysorys: An Analysis of Areal AspectsIn Wymysorys, also known as Vilamovicean (a Germanic language spoken in Wilamowice, a small town in the south of Poland), velarized laterals [ɫ] have turned into [w]. This shift is characteristic of some Polish and German dialects, although in the latter it only occurs under certain conditions. Since Wymysorys displays a strong...
Selected Aspects of Terminological Derivation: A Study of Railway Transport TerminologyThis article offers an analysis of patterns of compound term formation in Ukrainian railway transport terminology. The study identifies different types of derivatives according to the nature of syntactic relations between their elements, parts of speech to which they belong, and structural composition. It also provides...
Review: Dorota Filar, Narracyjne aspekty językowego obrazu świata. Interpretacja marzenia we współczesnej polszczyźnie, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2013, 224 pp.This article is a review of Dorota Filar’s study entitled Narracyjne aspekty językowego obrazu świata. Interpretacja marzenia we współczesnej polszczyźnie (Narrative Aspects of Linguistic Worldview: An Interpretation of marzenie ‘a dream’ in...
“Metalanguages of Dictionaries of Various Types: Construction and Application” (Kiev, 5–6 June 2018): A Conference ReportThis article is a report from an international academic conference held on 5–6 June 2018 in Kiev, organised by the Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The event was entitled “Metalanguages of dictionaries of various types: Construction and...
From an Adverb to a Prefix: The Case of the Polish współ-In the modern Polish language, it is difficult to determine in an unambiguous manner the word-formative status of formations which feature the element współ-. Such elements are treated as compounds or, more frequently, as prefixal forms. Historically, these elements, along with the constructions spół-, społu, constituted a class of compounds...
Archaic Animal Husbandry Terminology of Slavic Origin in the Romanian LanguageThis article analyses a number of Romanian dialectal words and expressions associated with: (1) coat colours of farm animals, like ‘black’, ‘pied’, ‘spotted white’, ‘piebald’ and ‘light brown’; and (2) different types of sheep earmarks. The study indicates that many archaic terms used to denote these meanings are Slavic...
Oleksandr Mel′nychuk as an Etymologist and ComparatistOleksandr Mel′nychuk (1921–1997) made a great contribution to the theory and methodology of historical-comparative studies of genetically related languages. His work mainly concerned three areas: the word family approach to the study of Slavic, Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, the theory of monoglottogenesis, and the historical typology...
Registers in Bulgarian Journalist Discouse: Review: Andreana Eftimova, Registri v zhurnalisticheskiia diskurs, Universitetsko izdatelstvo “Sv. Kliment Okhridski”, Sofiia 2018, 244 pp.The article is a review of Andreana Eftimova’s study Registri v zhurnalisticheskiia diskurs [Registers in Journalistic Discourse].Rejestry w bułgarskim dyskursie dziennikarskim. Rec.: Андреана Ефтимова, Регистри в журналистическия...
“Lies”, “Dirty Madness”, “Daylight Robbery”: How Henryk Sienkiewicz Verbalised Negative Judgments and Emotions (Based on Private Correspondence)This article is part of a stream of research on the language and style of private correspondence of Henryk Sienkiewicz. The article contains analysis of expressive lexis that the writer used to verbalise his negative judgments and feelings, which is complex,...
Father Stanisław Kozierowki (1874–1949) – a Forerunner of the Onomastic Research on Western SlavsFather Stanisław Kozierowski was one of the outstanding Polish researchers of Slavic onomastics in the first half of the twentieth century. He published numerous works on, often already forgotten, names of villages, lakes, rivers and marshes, particularly in the region of Greater Poland and the area historically...
Changes in Czech Dictionary Definitions in Dictionaries by Daniel Adam of VeleslavínDaniel Adam of Veleslavín was an outstanding Czech humanist who compiled four multilingual dictionaries published between 1579 and 1598. He employed a broad range of different lexicographic means and techniques to render foreign language sections of his entries in Czech: one-word equivalents, synonyms, phrases, periphrases...
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