The names of inheritances constituted in the old and middle Polish period a semantic group of a distinct morphological structure. They were derivatives from noun basis names of relationships, being the names of the inheritors ...

On the basis of the words of east-Slavonic origin isolated by S. Kania in his Słownik argotyzmow, the author undertakes the task of answering the question of which particular type of Russian, sociolect or dialect could ...

The study describes demons present in homes or connected with them, called home demons. Four groups of beliefs constitute the cult of demons, namely the cult of deceased ancestors - family guardians, which goes back to ...

The study explores the issue of definitional changes of the word hajdamaka and its derivatives since the 17lh century until the present day. As based on an anonymous diary of the second half of the 17th century (Pamiętniki ...

This work deals with the political language of the years 1926-1939. The lexical data come from international press: Robotnik, Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny. Gazeta Warszawska. The author presents vocabulary, which can be ...

The article presents toponymic processes which expose the origin of compound names in the region of tarnopolskie province and in which one of the components is motivated by a personal name. Various extra-linguistic factors ...

The article aims at presenting one of the ideas of inflexional description of pluralia tantum, which was dominant in the twenty century grammars and which categorised them as a sub-group of lexemes with defective inflexion ...

The article attempts to gather and describe selected thematic vocabulary in Polish phraseology. It is constructed by biblical expressions whose main lexical component is the name of an animal. The scope of the presented ...

The article discusses social and family roles of heroines in Orkan’s dramas. Their lives are portrayed against the economic background of the Polish village at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are shown ...

The article is focused on the problem of choosing formal expressions -a, -u in singular genitive of masculine nouns, which has been frequently discussed in literature. The study, as distinct from an extensive work by J. ...