Is the Synchronic Description of the Word-Formation System in Polish Complete? Cover Image

Czy opis synchroniczny systemu słowotwórczego polszczyzny jest kompletny?
Is the Synchronic Description of the Word-Formation System in Polish Complete?

Author(s): Hanna Jadacka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: morphophonological alternation;derivation by alternation;conversion;prefixation;derivation by exchange of prefixes;clipping;synchronic word;formation;word-formation techniques;

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes sixty years of the development of studies on synchronic word formation in Poland. The period is divided into two stages: 1959–1999, and 1999–2019. The first part recalls the comprehensive, profound characterization of the forty-year period from 1959 to 1999, given by Mirosław Skarżyński in Powstanie i rozwój polskiego słowotwórstwa opisowego. The second part is devoted to the twenty years from 1999 to 2019, and presents the most important changes that occurred in this period in the description of our (sub)discipline of linguistics. It highlights M. Skarżyński’s influence on the direction and essence of those changes, as the personality who inspired and penned groundbreaking works in the field, especially as the editor and collaborator on the third volume of SGS. Not all of the findings presented in this dictionary are sufficiently known in the scientific millieu, primarily due to the dispersion of works that continue previous research. Only after a synthesis of the newest accomplishments is prepared, will it be possible to give a positive answer to the question in the title.

  • Issue Year: 15/2020
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 67-77
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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