Kształtowanie się znaczenia parametrycznego przymiotnika ogromny – ogląd diachroniczny
The evolution of the parametric meaning of the adjective ogromny (‘enormous’) – a diachronic overview

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on the development of the Polish adjective ogromny which, in contemporary Polish, has a parametric meaning only. The research is conducted in a historical frame which means that the starting point were the etymological and historical word formation data. We treat the information referring to the use of this adjective in the old texts and its presence in other Slavonic languages as complementary. Our analyses led, inter alia, to the following conclusions: the parametric value of the adjective ogromny is secondary – it took shape during the history of Polish language; the main mechanism in the development of parametric value of ogromny is lexicalization. Its determinant is, in that case, the semantic fading and blurring of morphological boundaries.

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