Refleksje związane z dawnymi i współczesnymi opracowaniami i recenzjami onomastycznymi
Some reflections on past and contemporary onomastic studies and reviews

Summary/Abstract: A comparison of the 1979 and 2008/2009 volumes of the Onomastica journal reveals a decrease in the number of critical reviews in favour of shorter discussions and reviews of a more reporting character. Smaller difference is to be found in the two volumes between the papers classified as rozprawy (‘dissertations’). The primary focus remains on place and personal names (fore-, nick- and surnames) and relevant etymological, motivational and wordformative comments, but also on common nouns captured in Polish proper names. Innovation is observed both in studies on new proper names, and in a new choice of auxiliary sciences (the interdisciplinarity of onomastics: the old, manifest in the adduced fragments of reviews – and the new, apparent in the paper Co onomasta ma z religioznawcą? Ku onomastyce interdyscyplinarnej (na przykładzie nazw Kościołów i związków wyznaniowych w Polsce) (‘What does an onomast have in common with a student of religion? (On the example of the names of churches and religious associations in Poland)’)).

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