14 articles in this issue
Jolanta Medelska,Marek Marszalek
Lbem muru nie przebijesz: Tracing Northern Kresy Phraseology of the End of the Twentieth CenturyThe authors studied the little-investigated body of northern Kresy Polish phraseology.The first part of the article briefly presents general, theorical issues ... see more
Irena Masojc
(Non-)Honorific Ways of Referring to Public Figures in the Polish Media Discourse in LithuaniaThis article focuses on the ways of referring to public figures which involve the use of honorifics when talking about high-ranking representatives of society. I... see more
Maciej Rak
Loanword Dictionaries as Evidence of the Power of Languages (on the Example of Slownik polonizmów w jezyku litewskim [Dictionary of Polish Loanwords in Lithuanian] by Rolandas Kregždys)Two publications by Rolandas Kregždys – Lietuviu kalbos polonizmu žody... see more
Malgorzata Kasner
An Artist in a Watershed Time: New Forms of Expressing Faith and Religiosity in Texts by Vaidotas DaunysThis article discusses Christian themes in the works of the Lithuanian poet, essayist, publisher and editor Vaidotas Daunys (1958–1995). Daunys belonge... see more
Damian Gocól
The Image of Kresy Wschodnie in Texts of Oral HistoryThe author assumes that KRESY (former Polish Eastern Borderlands) is a characteristic culturem of Polish culture. He considers culturems as concepts which are important for self-identification, and assu... see more
???????? [Veronika] ???????????? [Girininkaite]
Linguistic Features of the Diary of Witold CywinskiThe diary written by student Witold Cywinski (1887–1910) (or Vytautas Civinskis, as he later signed his work with the Lithuanian version of his name) is a unique multilingual egodocument, now held at the ... see more
Anta Trumpa
Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesThis article analyses the naming of snakes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latvian texts which are taken from the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts, containing the first ... see more
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
Finno-Ugric Borrowings in YatvingianThis paper considers 15 Yatvingian words suspected of being borrowed from a Finno-Ugric source. The hypothesis is rejected in the case of five lexical units, while two further proposals are considered uncertain. The fol... see more
Malgorzata Ostrówka,Ewa Golachowska,Liene Liegeniece
Pamietnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska: A Testimony of Twentieth-Century Latvian PolishThis article presents Pamietnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska, a text which may not be very long but is certainly impor... see more
Katarzyna Konczewska
Jezyk polski na Kresach [Polish Language in the Eastern Borderlands] by Janusz Rieger Against the Background of Research on Borderland Polish After 2015This article presents the state of research in the field of studies on Borderland Polish after 2015. Th... see more
????? [Michal] ?????????? [Gluszkowski]
The Starting Point for the Research on the Russian Subdialect of the Old Believers in PolandThe main aim of this article is to discuss the findings of a monograph published half a century ago in the context of the evolution of the Russian subdialect of th... see more
Maksim Duszkin
The Journal Acta Baltico-Slavica: Over Half a Century of Research on the Balto-Slavic BorderlandIn 2019, fifty-five years have passed since the publication of the first volume of Acta Baltico-Slavica. The article presents the history of the journal, inclu... see more
Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa
From the History of Lithuanian DialectologyReviewDanguole Mikuleniene, Lietuviu tarmetyra: geneze, raida ir paradigminiai lužiai. I dalis: Ikitarmetyrinis laikotarpis. Lietuviu tarmetyros pradžia: tarmiu skyrimas, tyrimu perspektyvu užuomazgos ir ju tipai... see more
Michal Gluszkowski
Bielarusian Dialects in LatviaReviewMiroslaw Jankowiak, Soucasná beloruská nárecí v Lotyšsku. Charakteristika. Výber textu [Modern Belarusian Dialects in Latvia. Characteristics. A Selection of Texts], Praha: Slovanský ústav Akademie ved Ceské republiky, ... see more