JĘZYK POLSKI DZIŚ I W PRZYSZŁOŚCI
Polish Language Today and in the Future

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the development of Polish language in the 21st century. In the paper, special attention is drawn to techniques used to foresee language development. There is a presentation of scholarly literature concerning Polish language development in the 19th and 20th centuries. Analyzing possible changes in 21st-century Polish, a division has been made into external and internal linguistics. The internal one includes such phenomena as: growing analytical character, higher nominalization, an appearance of the definite article, more positional character, simplification of linguistic structures in mass communication, faster vocabulary exchange and diminished vocabulary associated with rural tradition and agriculture as well as a decrease of the vocabulary of Slavonic origin. The external linguistics includes the following phenomena: Polish becoming similar to other European languages, higher prestige in Mid-Eastern Europe, demographic stabilization, lower position of Polish as a scientific and scholarly language, weaker national categories in language defining, creation of the norm of minimal communicability, the process of regional disintegration, predominant influence of communication technologies on language development.

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