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A contribution to the history of modifiers of time. The 24-hour span of time in the description of 16th-century memoirists

Summary/Abstract: A contribution to the history of modifiers of time. The 24-hour span of time in the description of 16th-century memoirists The present article is devoted to the selected determiners of time in the early Polish language. The author studies the indication of time within a 24-hour span of time, documented in 16th-century memoirs. In the analysis one may distinguish two groups of temporal constructions. The first one is associated with the ways in which a point of time is indicated (przed godziną wtórą a dwudziestą; raniuczko, skoro ze dniem; trzy godziny po miesiącu); another one is associated with the indication of the duration of an action/state (np. pół ćwierci godziny). In the evolution of the perception of the world it is above all the changes imposed by the development of science and technology that are relevant – in this case the means of measuring time and space. A prominent feature of 16th-century texts is associated with the diversity of description associated with the class of the anteriorly prevailing perception of time with the new systems of keeping time. One is struck not only by the diversity but also the richness of the ways of expressing temporal relations, which enable a subtle modelling of description.

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