Synkretyzm a eklektyzm metodologiczny w najnowszych badaniach historycznojęzykowych
Methodological syncretism and eclecticism in the latest studies in historical linguistics

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to show a growing tendency in the latest research in historical linguistics towards a merger of varied research paradigms and analytical methods. This tendency stems from the interdisciplinary inclinations of its advocates, in contrast to the traditionally recognized attitudes. Presently, diachronic material is no longer merely subject to detailed linguistic analysis but it often constitutes a point of departure for vast analyses of phenomena which are cultural or sociological in nature. This cognitive pluralism and the interdisciplinary approach is a consequence of the ambiguities that the linguists have when they understand and discuss language. They either see language from the perspective of language competence of the speakers and their linguistic behaviour, or they look at it through texts and sign systems. At times these contradictory approaches are put together into a more general synthetic view. As a result of the merger, the latest works in historical linguistics become methodologically syncretic or even eclectic.

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