The materiał for linguistic analysis conducted in the paper consists of words or word connections originating from Polish literaturę about Tatra Mountains, which presents the problem of faith of Podhales people in existence ...

Based on the hand-written text of the Premonstratensian Statutes created in 1692, the article describes the ways of including the legal terms borrowed from Latin into the Polish language.

The article presents the linguistic concretisation of the motif of extraordinary heads (dialect: dziwostworne) that was conducted in the works of authors associated with Podhale and the Tatra Mountains. The starting point ...

Basing on the texts by Zofia Radwańska-Paryska, the author reconstructs the ways of describing plants growing in the Tatra Mountains. The method of looking at the plant includes four different author’s points of view, ...

The article illustrates the history of the Department of Polish Language at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. The author presents the scholars who, while working in the Department, greatly contributed to the development ...

The article discusses the elements of tradition in the language of Janina Porazińska’s children’s fiction. The vocabulary of her prose, with elements such as compounds, diminutives, determining adjectives and neologisms, ...

The article shows the means of evaluation of the word CITY in song lyrics. These methods have not changed throughout the last 40 years: the most frequent are connotational-evaluative words. On the other hand, the values ...

Dialectal suffixes -acz [-oc], -ak [-ok], -ula and -ka in zagórzański dialect usually form pejorative names of people. Among female names, a special example is the suffix -ula, which is either non-existent in other ...

The paper is an attempt at a reconstruction of the linguistic portrait of the Gorale (Polish Highlanders), which is included in the linguistic level of Na przełęczy (On the Mountain Pass) by Stanisław Witkiewicz. The ...