Elementy kresowe w języku "Kucharki Litewskiej" Wincenty Zawadzkiej
Borderland elements of the language of "Kucharka Litewska" by Wincenta Zawadzka

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on two issues: 1. characteristic features of the Northern Borderland variety of the Polish language substantiated in Kucharka litewska by Wincenta Zawadzka, the cookbook which was published in Vilnius either 1854 or 1858 as one of few texts of this kind, 2. where the individual language of the author was shaped and to what degree she acquired the norms of the general Polish language. Selected phonetic (marks of reduction of the unstressed e in final position in the form of akan’e and higher articulation), morphological (morphological marks of akan’e, numerous functionally reflexive verbs used as passive voice), as well as lexical and semantic phenomena (e.g. bójka, makotra, skorynka, starkować, trybulka // trybułka, tuszyć, ulep, plewy, plewka ‘błony w mięsie, żyły w mięsie, stężała warstewka np. na rosole’, w całku ‘w całości’, etc.) were analysed and described in this article. The author of this paper indicates that the language was undoubtedly shaped, placing itself within the Lithuania colloquial Polish of (average-)educated groups. Moreover, the author suggests that the language of the book should be further examined in various planes

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