Realizacja spółgłosek tylnojęzykowych w polszczyźnie południowokresowej XVII–XVIII w. (na materiale epistolarnym)
Realisation of dorsal consonants in the Polish of the Southern borderland of the 17th and 18th century (based on epistolary texts)

Summary/Abstract: One of the distinctive features of the Polish of the Southern borderland which has not been unambiguously explicated is palatality of dorsal consonants k, g before ę and before e of secondary derivation (e < ę) as in ręAe, w dro)e, )ęsty, Aempa, as well as palatalised articulation of the ,e, ,y group, as in mu-e, -iba, su-i, together with hypercorrection resulting from this type of articulation. The phenomenon can be accounted for in two major ways. The first hypothesis is that its origin is domestic, Mazovian, and according to the second hypothesis it is the result of influences from Ukrainian dialects. The linguistic material presented in the paper, coming from epistolary texts produced in the 17th and 18th century in the former territory of South-Eastern borderland, was juxtaposed with data from other Southern borderland sources and the results point to the thesis about Ukrainian influences.

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