Język w działaniu i działania na języku. Szkice semantyczno-słowotwórcze
Language at work – working on a language. Studies in semantics and word formation

Author(s): Krystyna Waszakowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: language; image; semantics; word formation; neologisms; consciousness
Summary/Abstract: The book comprises 16 articles concerning word formation and lexical semantics, representative of the Author’s forty-year work. The articles tackle theoretical issues, classifications, methods of description within the adopted framework, they also provide analyses of selected problems, illustrated with ample data excerpted from dictionaries and corpora. The book holds particular interest to anyone concerned with the contemporary Polish language, as well as to specialists in Polish philology or Slavic studies.

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