Charakterystyka diachroniczno-synchroniczna rzeczownika mężczyzna
Diachronic and synchronic description of the noun mężczyzna (a man)

Summary/Abstract: The object of the analysis performed in this paper is the lexeme mężczyzna (a man) viewed from two perspectives: diachronic and synchronic. In part one, which regards the history, the author concentrates on the origin and the primary meaning of this form (and its Proto-Slavic equivalent), as well as on the type of the semantic transformations undergone by mężczyzna over ages. In part two, in turn, the author characterises the semantic, grammatical and pragmatic properties of mężczyzna in contemporary Polish, its syntactic properties and collocations in which it occurs.

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