Rozwój słownictwa w dziejach języka polskiego – zarys problematyki
Development of vocabulary in the history of the Polish language – outline of the issues

Summary/Abstract: In the history of language, vocabulary has been developing on two basic planes: quantitative and qualitative changes. The former allow the conclusion that the development of the lexical resource of the Polish language has been progressive: from 5,000–7,000 to ca. 300,000 lexical units. On the plane of qualitative changes, vocabulary is developing within several scopes: 1) thematic circles; 2) communicative and stylistic variants; 3) semantic relations; 4) semantic changes of words; 5) vocabulary reproduction processes. The data obtained from the conducted analysis confi rm the dominance of the completion trend on the plane of qualitative changes, yet the hierarchy of other development trends is known to an insignifi cant degree only and requires further studies.

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