Przyczyny i skutki obecności afiksów obcego pochodzenia w dziejach polszczyzny
Causes and Effects of the Presence of Foreign Affi xes in the History of the Polish Language

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses causes of borrowing foreign affi xes within a language (a tendency to: differentiate the meanings, enrich the vocabulary of different stylistic infl ections and synonymy). The consequences of the emergence of foreign formants in a language are the following: increase of formal means in prefi xation and suffi xation, the development of prefi xal derivation; overcoming the barriers of parts of speech (in relation to prefi xes), the rivarly between foreign and native formants within the limits of the same semantic classes, the emergence of series of derivates, multiplying the lexicon, fi lling in semantic gaps, strenghtening the semantic precision, the emergence of synonymic pairs, the presence of derivates with foreign formants in different stylistic infl ections of the Polish Language. The auhtor claims that these consequences leave their mark on many different language grounds: starting from word formation, through lexis and semantics, down to stylistic level. Trans. A. Gierba

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