About the Language of Acts Grodno Zemstvo Court Cover Image

O języku Akt Grodzieńskiego Sądu Ziemskiego
About the Language of Acts Grodno Zemstvo Court

Author(s): Katarzyna Konczewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Acts of the Grodno Zemstvo Court; Vilna Archaeographic Commission; borrowings from the Polish language; Belarusian dialects of the Grodno region

Summary/Abstract: This article, for the first time in scientific literature, presents comments about the language of documents of the Grodno Zemstvo Court, the oldest in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. These documents were written in the 16th century in Cyrillic and published in XVII vol. of the Act of the Vilna Archaeographic Commission. The article presents promising directions for the study of these documents, and special attention is paid to the impact on their vocabulary of the Polish language and the functioning of the Belarusian dialects of the Grodno region.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 99-109
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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