The Józef Mianowski Fund was a private institution that had systematically supported Polish scholars and their research since , in the period when a Polish state did not exist. In , it announced a questionnaire to determine, in the new political situation, the state and needs of various scientic disciplines studied in Poland and by Polish scholars in Europe. Collected from the answers of scholars representing various disciplines, the results were meant to help direct the actions of the Fund in the country reborn aer a period of partition. The paper presents the views of linguists Jan Rozwadowski, Kazimierz Nitsch, Stanisław Szober, and Aleksander Brückner, on the state of Polish linguistics of the time, and their proposals for research projects, needs in the area of scientic literature, organizational actions, and education of linguists and popularization of linguistics. Their articles show a realistic evaluation of the state of Polish linguistic science, and very clearly specied plans aimed at raising Polish linguistics to the European level.
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