Neologizmy słowotwórcze w tekstach literackich Karola Wojtyły
Morphological neologisms in literary texts by Karol Wojtyła

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to determine the repertoire of morphological neologisms present in the literary works by Karol Wojtyła and to make a preliminary description of their structure and function. There are 46 new units in the discussed works; the majority of them are adjectives (27) followed by nouns (15) and verbs (4). Wojtyła’s neologisms are usually compliant with the morphological rules of Polish and demonstrate a considerable semantic transparency arising from their regularity. In several places, the poet strives for achieving the effect of archaism – he uses obsolete lexemes as derivational bases and applies formants that are unproductive today. Units considered neologisms occur in Wojtyła’s works 58 times in total. A vast majority of these uses are present in juvenilia, which permits the conclusion that creating neologisms is one of the components characteristic of the early works of the poet-pope, the works strongly dependent on the style of authors from the period of Romanticism and Modernism. The adoption of neologisms very rarely involves textual efforts emphasising their semantics in Wojtyła’s texts (although this type of operations performed on other morphologically derivational units are fairly frequent in the mature works of the author of Tryptyk rzymski (Roman triptych)), and his new forms perform a stylistic rather than nominative function to a large extent.

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