Leksem błękitny w polskiej prozie (badania korpusowe)
The lexeme błękitny ‘blue’ in the Polish prose: A corpus-based study

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to discuss the occurrence of the adjective błękitny in the texts collected in the category “prose” of the National Corpus of Polish, available at www.nkjp.pl. The data have been excerpted from the balanced subcorpus with the search engine PELCRA. As the analysis demonstrates, błękitny is used in prose more frequently than in other texts, non-literary categories, and that is why, this word should be regarded as sophisticated and bookish. The corpus data allow for identifying differences not only in the frequency but also in the use of the words błękitny and niebieski by prose writers. Błękitny is used more often to describe the sky, water, smoke and mist, whereas niebieski, which is the basic term for blue in Polish, is employed to describe clothes and eyes.

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