Shall we insert a comma? Punctuation dilemma of Polish ancient texts publisher

• Authors: Joanna Krauze-Karpińska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The author discusses the problem concerning modernisation of the historical, based on intonation, rhetorical punctuation system distinguished for ancient Polish texts (up to 18-th century) but hardly comprehensible nowadays. She presents the features of the system and rules of its application, quoting examples derived from printed literary masterpieces of three best known 16-th century Polish poets: Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski and Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński. Being convinced of inevitability of replacing old punctuation system by modern one (logical-syntactic) she also perceives necessity of description of the historical one.

Keywords

EN

history of language; editing of ancient literature; punctuation; old Polish literature

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2016

online

2016-12-08

Contributors

author

Joanna Krauze-Karpińska