Archaiczność polszczyzny południowokresowej. Zagadnienia teoretyczno-metodologiczne
The archaic nature of the Polish language in the southern part of Eastern Borderland. Theoretical and methodological issues.

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the issue of the archaic nature of the Polish language spoken in the southern part of Eastern Borderland. She presented the theoretical basis of the archaic quality of the territorial variants of the language (J. Schmidt’s wave theory, the opinions of M. G. Bartoli, an Italian neo-linguist ). The results of the research into archaisms and innovations in the context of the centre and peripheries of the language by Polish authors T. Milewski, Z. Stieber and H. Popowska-Taborska, have also been presented. Against this background, the archaic features of the Polish language spoken in the southern part of Eastern Borderland were presented with reference to the 17th and 18th centuries. Attention has been drawn to the methodological and interpretational problems of archaisms in this variant of the language (the requirement of using historic-comparative and confrontational linguistic methods, the difficulty with distinguishing archaisms and loan-words).

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