scholarly journals VARIATION AND NORMALIZATION OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE IN THE OLD PRINTS FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY

1970 ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
JOLANTA MIGDAŁ
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
Normalization Process

The article presents normalization of the Polish literary language in prints from the first half of the 16th century. It was a breakthrough period for the normalization process in which the activities aimed at limiting the variation of language forms were intensified. The linguistic analysis presented here focuses on two groups of sixteen-century texts: Polish palaeotypes, that is the prints from Cracow from the years 1521–1522 as well as on the writings of Andrzej Glaber of Kobylin published in the years 1535–1539 in the Cracow publishing house of Florian Ungler and his wife Helena where he performed various functions: of an author, translator and editorpublisher.The observation and study of variance of language forms and its limitation enables us not only to determine the degree of normalization of the Polish language in particular periods, but also to characterize the attitude to standards of sixteen-century publishers of Polish books. On the basis of the comparison of normalization of Polish in palaeotypes from the years 1521–1522 and in the works of Andrzej Glaber from the years 1535–1539 we can conclude that the first half of the 16th century was characterized by particular standards. It is difficult to notice an apparent continuity of the normalizationtradition. Nevertheless, we can discern in this period a developing progressive trend in the normalization of the Polish literary language which quickly became widespread. The group of progressive normalizers definitely includes: the anonymous editor of Żywot Pana Jezu Krysta, printed in the publishing house of Hieronim Wietor, Jan from Koszyczki, Hieronim from Wieluń (Spiczyński) and Andrzej Glaber. In the later period also Jan Seklucjan and Stanisław Murzynowski joined this group, the polemicists who broke the old linguistic traditionsof Jan Sandecki-Malecki. Nowadays, on the basis of the findings of numerous historical-linguistic analyses, the victory of this progressive option is quite apparent..

scholarly journals O biegunie – językoznawczo (rozważania w kontekście tytułu powieści Olgi Tokarczuk Bieguni)

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Marcin Maciołek
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Insight Into

The paper contains a historical linguistic analysis of the noun biegun. It was prompted by the inflectional form of the plural nominative bieguni, the title of one of Olga Tokarczuk’s novels, a form unusual from the point of view of the contemporary Polish grammatical system. Tokarczuk used the form ending in -i, typical of masculine personal nouns, while the word biegun is commonly known to be used nowadays only in meanings that do not refer to people. This is why the paper attempts to gain insight into the semantics of the lexeme biegun in the history of the Polish language. The research carried out made it possible to determine that the examined unit used to function in many personal meanings in the past, meanings that would eventually become obsolete with the gradual lexicalization of the word biegun and in relation the appearance of its derivational synonyms in the Polish language. Tokarczuk thus revived some of the old meanings of the word biegun referring to people, and at the same time brought out new, metaphorical meanings embedded in it in potentia – thus delexicalizing the examined unit.

scholarly journals Nie tylko Bulla gnieźnieńska

LingVaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Tomasz Mika
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Common ◽  
Linguistic Analyses

Not Only Bulla Gnieźnieńska. On the Importance of Zbylut’s Foundation Document (Issued in 1153) for Polish Historical and Linguistic Research. Part 1: Research Object The list of sources used in the research of the oldest period of development of the Polish language is very short. Only Bulla Gnieźnieńska exists in the common consciousness. Meanwhile, the foundation document issued in 1153 by knight Zbylut for the Cistercians in Łekno, called the Zbylut’s document, may be of value to historians of language for at least three reasons: first, it contains onomastic material from the mid-12th century; second, it is available in several versions (including two parallel originals from the mid-12th century and one copy from the end of the same century), which are fully legible and perfectly preserved; and third, it has been carefully studied by a few generations of historians who have carefully considered and resolved many issues related to the circumstances of creating the originals and the copies. The results of their research constitute an invaluable and basic context for historical and linguistic analyses. The aim of the article (the first one in a series) is to introduce the Zbylut’s document (its originals and copies) into the Polish historical-linguistic research, to verify and supplement the existing transliterations, to show the document as an object of studies, and to select historical information that may prove to be important from the historical-linguistic perspective. Further work is aimed at conducting historical-linguistic research on Polish language material, providing transcription (with linguistic justifications) of Polish words and formulating research perspectives. Further works are aimed at carrying out historical and linguistic analyses of Polish language materials, preparing transcriptions of Polish words with their justifications, and formulating research perspectives.

scholarly journals Reformation, Mikael Agricola, and the Birth of the Finnish Literary Language

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Häkkinen ◽  
Kirsi Salonen ◽  
Tanja Toropainen
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Source Material ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

This article revisits the traditional history of the birth of the Finnish literary language in the aftermath of the Lutheran Reformation in the first half of the 16th century. Contrary to what earlier scholars have assumed, the article argues that the creation of the Finnish literary language cannot be attributed exclusively to the Bishop of Turku, Mikael Agricola, who is known as “the father of the Finnish literary language” because he published the first printed books in Finnish. The article will show that although the first Finnish publications were printed in the name of the Bishop of Turku, they were based on the translations of more authors. The article will also propose answers to the question, who these until now unknown authors could have been. The article is based on the study of relevant contemporary historical source material and close linguistic analysis of the early translations of ecclesiastical texts into Finnish.

scholarly journals Dawne polskie intensyfikatory wywodzące się od staroczeskiego "přieliš"

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Mitrenga
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Bible Translations ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Linguistic Material

Historical Polish Intensifiers Derived from the Old Czech přieliš This article is devoted to a historical-linguistic analysis of the equivalents of the Old Czech přieliš in historical Polish: the words bezlisz, brzezlisz, przelisz, przezlisz and przylisz. The study refers to key findings of researchers about these words, their origins and meaning. On the basis of analysis of linguistic material the author formulates conclusions about word-formation of the equivalents of přieliš in Polish, their frequency in monuments of Polish literature from the Old Polish period to the end of the sixteenth century, their meaning and status in Polish, as well as presumable causes of their disappearance from the language. The paper presents examples that confirm their functioning in monuments of the Polish language, such as Biblia królowej Zofii [Queen Sophia’s Bible] from the mid-fifteenth century and Biblia Jana Leopolity [John Leopolita’s Bible] from 1561, as well as in dictionaries of Polish. The study also considers information about Old Czech and compares parallel verses of Polish and Czech Bible translations. Dawne polskie intensyfikatory wywodzące się od staroczeskiego přieliš Artykuł poświęcony jest historycznojęzykowej analizie odpowiedników staroczeskiego přieliš, czyli wyrazów bezlisz, brzezlisz, przelisz, przezlisz i przy­lisz w dawnej polszczyźnie. Autorka przytacza najważniejsze opinie badaczy o wymienionych wyrazach, ich pochodzeniu i znaczeniu. Na podstawie ana­lizy materiału językowego formułuje wnioski dotyczące budowy słowotwór­czej staroczeskich odpowiedników přieliš w języku polskim, ich frekwencji w zabytkach literatury polskiej od staropolszczyzny do końca XVI w., znaczenia i statusu tych wyrazów w polszczyźnie, a także przypuszczalnych przyczyn ich zaniku. W artykule przedstawiono przykłady potwierdzające funkcjonowanie wspomnianych wyrazów zarówno w zabytkach języka polskiego m.in. w Biblii królowej Zofii z połowy XV w. i Biblii Jana Leopolity z 1561 r., jak i w słowni­kach języka polskiego. Ponadto autorka przywołuje informacje o staroczeskim i porównuje równoległe wersety przekładów Biblii na język polski i czeski.

scholarly journals THE PECULIARITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN-POLISH LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL FRONTIER

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Nataliia Sovtys
Keyword(s):  
Border Studies ◽  
National Literature ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Single State ◽  
Polish Culture

Prolonged coexistence within a single state, i.e. the Commonwealth of Poland, laid the foundations for the emergence of common cultural and linguistic features along the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands. The article substantiates the peculiarities of the choice of terminology in defining the concepts of “border studies”. Due to the Ukrainian-Polish language contacts, a southern Polish peripheral dialect arose, which was spread over a large territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and formed the literary Polish language with the ethnic Polish dialects, since the effects of borrowing are recorded in the phonetic and morphological language, as well as stimulating of the internal tendencies of language development. During the period of increased polonization, we observe the spread of Ukrainian lexical elements in Polish poetry from the middle of the 16th century, while in the 17th century we can see not only the integration of Ukrainianisms into Polish poetry, but even the Ukrainian language in Polish literature can be singled out. Despite the privileged position and dominance of the Polish culture, a unique situation emerged in the context of Ukrainian-Polish contacts along the borderlands when the subordinated Ukrainian folk culture became an ideological and thematically dominant aspect of Polish fiction, painting and music. Of particular interest is the creativity of Polish poets of the “Ukrainian School”, for whom the traditions of the Ukrainian people were native, so these authors created their national literature from local language material and played a significant role in the spread of Ukrainian elements in Polish literary language.

scholarly journals Kazimierz Nitsch jako historyk języka

LingVaria ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 297-306
Author(s):  
Bogusław Dunaj
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Important Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Great Merit

Kazimierz Nitsch as a Historian of LanguageKazimierz Nitsch is the founder of Polish dialectology. In addition, he also studied, though to a lesser extend, contemporary Polish language and its history. His early works in the field of linguistic history are typical philological studies. An analysis of rhymes in poetry from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century was methodologically innovative, and allowed for an interpretation of some phonetic processes that took place in the past. Growing out of dialectological research, the most important method applied to the interpretation of historical linguistic processes, was reasoning about their course on the basis of an analysis of the reaches of certain phenomena in dialects. The great merit of K. Nitsch was the initiation in 1913 of a discussion about the origin of the Polish literary language.

scholarly journals Polish Notes on Moscow Documents of the Time of Troubles: Historical and Linguistic Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Natalia Eilbart
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Petersburg Institute ◽  
System Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Time Of Troubles ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Introduction. The article analyzes Polish markings made on documents of Moscow origin during the Time of Troubles. Materials. For analysis we took documents stored in the archives of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (petitions of nobles, merchants and peasants to Moscow princes, King Sigismund III and Prince Vladislav), as well as documents from the Smolensk archive, which are located in the State Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet). Two categories of documents stand out: petitions of Moscow nobles addressed to King Sigismund III and Prince Vladislav, as well as other documents that fell into the hands of the Poles after the fall of Smolensk in 1611. We included in the last category the documents of Smolensk Provincial Prikaz and the personal archive of voevoda M.B. Shein as well. After a long stay in the territory of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, a part of The Smolensk Archive came to Sweden during the Polish-Swedish war (the “Flood”), a part settled in the continental Europe, later re-entered the territory of Russia due to the activities of the Archaeographic Commission. Methods. We used the methods of comparative linguistic analysis, the method of comparison, the system method, as well as the narrative and historical-genetic methods. Results. Polish inscriptions on documents of Moscow origin testify to the great influence of the Russian language on Polish and the appearance of numerous Russisms in the Polish language.

scholarly journals Piśmiennictwo religijne Tatarów Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego jako oryginalne źródło do badań polszczyzny północnokresowej

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
The 19Th Century

The religious writings of the Tatars constitute a valuable source for philological research due to the presence of heretofore unexplored grammatical and lexical layers of the north borderland Polish language of the 16th-20th centuries and due to the interference-related and transfer-related processes in the context of Slavic languages and Slavic-Oriental contacts. Therefore the basis for linguistic analyses is constituted by one of the most valuable monuments of this body of writing – the first translation of the Quran into a Slavic language in the world (probably representing the north borderland Polish language), which assumed the form of a tefsir. The source of linguistic analyses is constituted by the Olita tefsir, which dates back to 1723 (supplemented and corrected in the 19th century). On the basis of the material that was excerpted from this work the author presents both borderland features described in the subject literature and tries to point the new or only sparsely confirmed facts in the history of the Polish language, including the formation of the north borderland Polish language on the Belarusian substrate. Research involves all levels of language – the phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic and the lexical-semantic levels.

scholarly journals Leksem drabant (Act 23,23) w Nowym Testamencie Biblii gdańskiej (1632) w przekładzie Daniela Mikołajewskiego

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-151
Author(s):  
Tomasz Lisowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Polish Language

In a verse of Act 23,23 in Biblia gdańska (1632) translated by Daniel Mikołajewski, an equivalent of Greek lexeme δεξιόλαβος ‘probably a spearman or slinger’, the noun drabant is used, which is unique, compared to its counterpart – oszczepnik – in Biblia translated by JakubWujek (1599). It may have been borrowed from the Czech language in the second half of the 16th century. In the Polish language of the time it was not a very widespread lexeme, maybe of erudite nature. It appeared in the text of Biblia gdańska taken from the Czech Biblia kralicka. Among Protestants at that time, as a military term, it could have evoked associations with the religious Hussite Wars. The lexeme drabant survived in the biblical text of the Evangelist circles until the second half of the twentieth century. Given the fact that in that century it was already an archaic word, it was not used in new testament translations which followed the translational tradition of Biblia gdańska. And probably it became fixed in the consciousness of the faithful of Evangelist churches as a memorable reminder of the past. For centuries that lexeme, along with other lexemes characteristic of Biblia gdańska caused lexical distinctiveness of that Evangelist translation compared to the Catholic translation by Jakub Wujek.

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