Denominalne odnarzędziowe nazwy osobowe w polszczyźnie XVI wieku
Denominal Personal Names in the Polish Language from the 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: Historical word-formation has been the subject of multidisciplinary research for a few dozen years. Former literature does not, however, give the whole picture of word-formation processses from 16th century. There still haven’t been compiled denominal personal names. This fact became a motivation to take up research. The author decided to apply diachronic analysis with the use of conceptual apparatus of a synchronic description. Due to the diachronic analysis it was possible to show the development of studied structures not only in the 16th century, but also in Old Polish and later centuries. The study shows that denominal personal names that functioned in the Polish language from the 16th century: 1) were a marginal category limited to a small number of formations characterized with instability in formal means selection, 2) were mostly the names of people playing musical instruments, 3) were mostly derivated with a formant -nik, which appeared in one third of formations, rarely with a formant -ista, which was present in 28% of derivates, 4) were in most probably the 16th century’s neologisms, as two thirds of them were not registered in Słownik staropolski [Dictionary of Old Polish], 5) were characterized by long life span, as 44% of them did not decline, 6) up to modern times there remained mostly structures with a suffi x -ista/-ysta that specializes in derivating personal formations from instruments’ names. Trans. A. Gierba

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