KAMIENIE MILOWE W POLSZCZYŹNIE: OD ZNAKÓW PRZYDROŻNYCH PO WARUNKI (NIE) DO SPEŁNIENIA
MILESTONES IN POLISH: FROM ROADSIDE SIGNS TO CONDI ONS (NOT) TO BE MET

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the history of the lexical unit kamień milowy ‘milestone’ in the Polish language, with a particular emphasis on its new meaning, coming from the EU variety of English, and the meaning-specific collocability. The study has shown how the political context influenced the popularity of the name in its new meaning, its functioning in the media, and its social reception. Data come from dictionaries, language corpora, the Polona digital library, the EU legal acts database, and the EU terminology database.

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