LEXICAL ARCHAISMS IN 'KURIER WILENSKI' (1924-1939) (Archaizmy leksykalne w 'Kurierze Wilenskim' (1924-1939))

• Authors: Joachimiak-Prazanowska Joanna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents archaic lexics being in use in the interwar Polish language at the territory of the North-Eastern borderlands. The analysis has covered peculiar vocabulary noted down from the 'Kurier Wilenski', a daily newspaper published in Vilnius during the twenty-year interwar period. The gathered linguistic phenomena have been confronted with the resources of the Polish and Russian definition dictionaries and translation dictionaries. Also the etymological dictionaries and linguistic guides served as a comparative source. The authoress has excerpted 96 archaisms, it means the words belonging to the oldest all-Poland vocabulary. In the period under investigation they were not used any longer in the ethnic Polish language. Among this lexics a significant percentage covers the borrowings from foreign languages. They are Latinisms (azylum, cyrkul, cyrulik, invidia, investygacyjny, kloaka, kwarta, teatrum, wjatyk) and Germanisms (jegier, junkier, komponista, oberpolicmajster), which as soon as the post-partition period was over were dropped out of use. A part of the vocabulary referred to was based on the East Slavic languages (Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian). That fact impeded the process to withdraw the words from circulation over the borderlands. This phenomenon was reflected by the language of the editors of the 'Kurier Wilenski' between 1924 and 1939.

Keywords

EN

ARCHAISMS; POLISH LANGUAGE - BORDERLAND VARIETY; PRESS LANGUAGE - VILNIUS REGION (1924-39)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Acta Baltico-Slavica
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 33
• Pages: 109-129
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Joachimiak-Prazanowska Joanna

• Joanna Joachimiak-Prazanowska, Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy, ul. K. Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA07508