Polszczyzna XX wieku w perspektywie diachronicznej – propozycja badawcza
Twentieth-century Polish in a diachronic perspective: A research proposal

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an approach to studying the Polish language of the 20th century which can be now classified as a historical resource. The project fits into the tradition of examining the Polish language from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries that has been established and developed in the Katowice centre for historical linguistics. For the author, the key research goal is to show the most significant changes within the 100-year period, focusing predominantly on phonetic, inflective and lexical changes. To some extent, these phenomena have already been the subject of linguistic research, but they have never been fully documented using empirical data. Thus, the author proposes to base the analysis of linguistic changes on a wide range of empirical material coming from the 19th-century press.

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