Nazwy handlowe piwa w polszczyźnie. Próba typologii
Trade Names of Beer in the Polish Language – An Attempt at a Typology

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to classify trade names of beer occurring in the Polish language. The collected material comprises 700 trade names of beer. Names of beer were divided according to their meaning into the two basic groups: the names of direct motivation and names of conventional motivation. The paper has shown that among the Polish beer names the dominating group are monolexic nouns. The most numerous groups are place names and related to them. There is a tendency to form sophisticated names.

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