Wybrane zagadnienia składni regionalnej w polszczyźnie „Kuriera Wileńskiego” z lat 1924–1939
Selected issues in regional syntax questions in the language of “Kurier Wileński” from the years 1924–1939

Summary/Abstract: The article presents issues of choice in the scope of regional syntax. These are characteristics the most characteristic for the syntax of north and east Borderland. The analysis of the collected syntax characteristics was conducted by means of „Kurier Wileński” material. 48 types of specific syntax structures were excerpted from the questioned newspaper (29 of them were chosen in this article for presentation). In „Kurier Wileński” one finds north Borderland syntax questions (ones the most often described in the literature of the subject), and several specific constructions functioning in the post-war Vilnius newspapers, however not registered earlier on the Borderland. The text frequency of the structures was diverse. One noted the most often specific constructions with the preposition dla (127 certifications), and adjectival predicatives in ablative (111), as well as nominal sentences without copula (49), and the following structures: w Białorusi / do Białorusi (34), łotewska i estońska delegacje (28), chronić od czegoś (27), czekać czegoś (22). However the greatest amount of syntax characteristics occasionally occurred in the questioned texts (1–2 certifications). As it was proved by the analysis, more than 70% of the syntax characteristics found in „Kurier Wileński” are the loan translations of Russian structures (at the same time nearly all the remaining constructions are based on Russian language). In the subsequent newspapers the percentage of Russicisms was even higher. On these grounds the north Borderland syntax was and is highly Russificated.

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