Średniowieczne zabytki polsko-łacińskie jako przedmiot badań historycznojęzykowych. Perspektywy badawcze
Medieval Polish-Latin texts in historical linguistic studies: research perspectives

Summary/Abstract: It is only over the last several years that Polish-Latin bilingualism has been explored in depth by the historians of the Polish language. Yet, research in this area has been limited to a rather small corpus of texts, mainly Kazania Świętokrzyskie (‘The Holy Cross Sermons’) and some legal texts. Such research data do not enable making generalisations or spotting a variety of relationships between Polish and Latin in the Polish Middle Ages. The aim of the article is to outline the perspectives for further research on Polish-Latin bilingualism in the Middle Ages, which will be carried out from two points of view: textual (based on the available material) and linguistic (that sees bilingualism as a significant factor in contact-induced change), for which a starting point will be the findings of the latest European research on language contact in medieval Europe.

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