Drugie posłowie historyka do "Resztek Słowian na południowym wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego" Aleksandra Hilferdinga
A historian's second afterword to Resztki Słowian na południowym wybrzeżu Morza Bałtyckiego by Alexander Hilferding

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the Second Afterword is to emphasise that current interpretations of Resztki Słowian by linguists are exceptionally uncritical and, consequently, one-sided. I do not find Alexander Hilferding's account useless, but I believe that, as any other subjective report, it requires a critical approach. It should be emphasized that it was prepared in a very short time, and its Russian author cannot be considered a reliable researcher. Therefore, its scientific usefulness is limited. It has already been argued that the book was written with the help of Florian Ceynowa; however, I intend to prove a new proposition. In my opinion, the aforementioned assistance was much more significant than has been assumed by recent linguistic research, a fact Hilferding did not always properly point out. Moreover, the actual scope of help on the part of Ceynowa in relation to the Kashubian language of the eastern part of Koszalin district was far greater than it has been acknowledged by linguists, who fail to take into account the fact that Ceynowa had been studying it since the early 1840s, and in 1845 he conducted his own independent linguistic research in Słupsk county.

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