The article contains results of lexical analysis of 8 romantic poems (including the national epos) of 7 eminent Polish romantic authors: Antoni Malczewski, Adam Mickiewicz, Seweryn Goszczyński, Józef Bohdan Zaleski, Juliusz ...

We came to the conclusion that narrowing of meaning and metonymy are two main types of semantic derivation of all thematic fields of religious vocabulary (52% and 42%, respectively). Metaphor (6%) as a form of semantic ...

The author talks about chosen issues connected with usage of addressing forms in oral religious communication concerning three plains of using addressing forms in communicational situational contacts with the representatives ...

The article presents an analysis of phrases and proverbs with a toponymic component, which were excerpted from lexicographic sources recording Silesian dialects. The object of description is the image of “a little ...

The article presents 89 names which belong to plant lexis. The linguistic material was excerpted from short stories Ludzie stamtąd (People from There) by Maria Dąbrowska. The terminology which is discussed belongs to 10 ...

The Polish-wide word jałowiec (Juniperus communis) in the Polish language of the northeastern borderlands exists (already since Adam Mickiewicz’s times) as the variant jadłowiec, and in the present Wilno dialects also ...

The subject of interest in the article are the names of trees appearing in Europe, commonly used in Polish elaborations. An analysis was conducted on the adjectives being a part of the binominal names, describing the ...

In the phraseological stock of Polish there can be found language units which conceal a cultural symbolism of mythological provenance – symbolism that speakers are perhaps sometimes unaware of. In this group tere are two ...