46 articles in this issue
Iryda Grek-Pabisowa
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?????? [Serhei] ?????? [Vitiaz'],???????? [Vladimir] ???????? [Holenkov],????????? [Aleksandr] ?????? [Hordei],????? [Elena] ??????? [Rudenko]
Victor Vladimirovich Martinov (1924–2013)(Obituary)
Leszek Bednarczuk
Languages in Contact and Conflict on the Territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL)Professor Uriel Weinreich, born and raised in Wilno / Vilnius, in his famous work Languages in contact (1953/1970), apart from some remarks concerning Slavic influence... see more
Elzbieta Koniusz
Co-existence of languages in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the light of the works of Jan KarlowiczThe article discusses the issues of the co-existence of languages in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the consequences of the phe... see more
???? [IUliia] ??????? [Hurskaia]
Multilingualism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as reflected in old antroponymsThis article analyses historical anthroponyms in the Vitebsk and Mogilyov areas of Belarus. The dialects of this area are categorised as transitional within the Balto-Slavic, W... see more
Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa
"The Domestic Notes" by Bishop Maciej Wolonczewski (Motiejus Valancius) as a contribution to the knowledge of the social and linguistic situation on the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the rule of the tsarsThe article introduces the... see more
Krystyna Szczesniak
Belorussian zamowy and other folk medicine texts as evidence for linguistic and cultural permeation in the former Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThis paper presents the lexical material stored in the Belorussian zamowy: names of holidays, prayers, designations o... see more
?????? [Galina] ????????-?????? [Kutyriowa-Czubala]
The language of folk songs as a part of cultural heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Belarus and its borderzones)This paper examines the melodic and rhythmic properties of the language of songs in the area defined by the basins of Dvina, Nioman and ... see more
Maria Teresa Lizisowa
The anthropological orientation of the word law in Adam Mickiewicz’s writingsThis article discusses the anthropological orientation of the word law in Adam Mickiewicz’s writings. The author claims that this word is essential for the interpretation of the ... see more
Virginija Vasiliauskiene
On the text structure and sources of K. Sirvydas’ book of sermons (Punktai sakymu – Punkty Kazan)The Jesuit priest Konstantinas Sirvydas (~1580–1631) was one of the most multitalented and creative intellectuals in Lithuania in the 17th century. Using his ... see more
Selim Chazbijewicz
The spiritual culture of Polish Tatars as an integral element of the Slavic-Muslim borderlands cultureThe present article depicts the unique culture of Polish Tatars in the context of their history and the histories of other Muslim cultures in Europe, esp... see more
Urszula Wróblewska
The activity of the Vilno branch of the Cultural and Educational Association of Polish Republic TatarsThe aim of the article is to describe the activity of the Vilno branch of the Cultural and Educational Association of Polish Republic Tatars, according t... see more
Joanna Kulwicka-Kaminska
Names of attributes of Gods: one, sole in Polish translations of Bibles and the QuranThe present article spans many different areas of linguistics (the history of Polish, theolinguistics, Islamic linguistics, kitabistics, religious language) and translati... see more
Dzemila Smajkiewicz-Murman
The culture of Polish-Lithuanian Tatars in the Vilnius regionThe article analyses the culture of the Tatars who came to the Vilnius region centuries ago. In 1945, most of the Tatars from the region decided to go to Poland during the process of repatriatio... see more
Irena Maryniakowa
The origins of culture and language of Old Believers in PolandThe Old Believers – the descendants of Russians who in the middle of the seventeenth century did not accept the reforms of Patriarch Nikon – had to leave their homeland due to persecution. They... see more
????? [Irina] ???????? [Pozdeeva]
«?????? ??????, ?????? ?????». Spiritual lyric poetry of Old Believers Pomors communities inhabiting Upper Kama RiverThe article contains broad discussion of well-preserved traditional Christian culture in the community of Priestless Old-Believers of the ... see more
Zoja Jaroszewicz-Piereslawcew
Notes in books printed in Cyrillic in the printing houses of the Great Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th to 18th centuriesReaders of Cyrillic books printed in the Great Duchy of Lithuania were Orthodox, Uniates and Old Believers, and came from diverse social... see more
Michal Gluszkowski
Idiolectal diversity of code-switching in the bilingualism of the Old Believers in the region of Suwalki and AugustówThe phenomenon of code-switching is strictly connected with bilingualism – according to Muysken’s theory, we can distinguish three main ty... see more
Dorota Pasko-Koneczniak
The problem of word stress patterns in the Russian dialect of the Old Believers (in the Suwalki–Augustów region)The article addresses the problem of word stress in the Russian dialect of the Old Believers living in the Suwalki–Augustów region. This is an ... see more
Natalia [???????, Nataliia] Ananiewa [????????, Anan’eva]
Polish texts in Cyrillic alphabet used by the speakers of the Polish dialect in the village of VershinaThe article analyzes Polish texts in Cyrillic alphabet used by the speakers of the Polish dialect in the village of Vershina, Bokhan Region near Irkutsk... see more
A less known variety of Polish in Pripyat River basin and Vitebsk regionIn Belorussian Polesia in the basin of the Pripyat River as well as in Vitebsk and Mogilev regions, there are numerous villages inhabited by Polish people displaced from Mazovia and n... see more
???? [Vera] ???????? [Astreika]
Features of north-west belorussian dialects as a result of regional ethno-cultural contacts and relationsFor a long time, north-west Belorussian dialects (and their predecessors) have been the area of different Slavic-Baltic contacts and relations. Intera... see more
???? [IUliia] ????????? [Khvilanchuk]
Prepositional constructions with ‘na’ in folk dialects of north-west BelarusThis article is a study of such prepositional constructions as aslepnuts na vochy, hvarets na astsu, azlab?tstsa na sina, graz na dudtsy, ehats na kan? in folk dialects of north-w... see more
????? [Iryna] ?????? [Haluza]
Jazep Drazdovich’s dictionary and Polish lexicographical tradition of the early 20th centuryThe article provides a comparative analysis of the theoretical and methodological Belorussian and Polish dictionaries of the early 20th century. We attempt to show... see more
???????? [Veranika] ??????? [Kurtsova]
New lexicographical researches in the Belarusian national dialectology: Senno region dialect dictionaryCurrently new lexicographical researches in dialectology are started in the Belarusian linguistics. This is a great innovation project “Consolidated Dic... see more
Halina Karas
Observations on the Polish lexis in Lithuania on the borderland of Lithuania, Latvia and BelarusThe paper comments on the lexicon of Polish on the borderland of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus (in the Zarasai district and the Ignalina district in Lithuania)... see more
Jadwiga Kozlowska-Duda
The Polish speech of several villages in the neighborhood of Do?ishki compared with the north-eastern peripheral dialectThe scientific studies on the Polish language on the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania have focused mainly on specific r... see more
Anna Zebrowska
Polishness in Komarowszczyzna and its surroundings: history and the present dayThe direct reason for writing this article was a reflection that came to my mind during the fieldwork in July/August 2012, which took place in the north-west part of Belarus, i... see more
Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sulkowska
The north-eastern Polish dialects preserved in the poetry of Feliks Mieszczanski from Kadysz village (Republic of Belarus)The article describes the variety of Polish spoken by the inhabitants of Kadysz – a village located in the closed border zone at the ... see more
Iveta Rucka
The so-called "indigenous" Polish speech in Latvia in the pre-war period from the perspective of its native users (basing on the 1922–1940 local press)The article stems from the author’s interest in the pre-war Polish press in Latvia. It is based on press... see more
Kristine Kunicka
Designations of tableware in the speech of Latgalian PolesToday, Polish is spoken not only in its base territory but also on the periphery: countries such a as Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia, which used to be united under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth... see more
Danguole Mikuleniene,Krystyna Rutkowska
Contemporary linguistic situation in Lithuania: geolinguistic aspects and new descriptive possibilitiesThe purpose of this article is to present the latest dialectological research conducted in Lithuania based on the achievements of dialectology as a scie... see more
Barbara Dwilewicz [Dvilevic]
On language correctness of Polish posts on pl.delfi.lt discussion groupThe article discusses issues of language correctness of texts written in Polish but published outside Poland on pl.delfi.lt discussion group (established March 2012). We analyse deviat... see more
Ines Ackermann
Young Poles in Lithuania: about Pulaki and WilniukiThe article analyses the blog and the corresponding Facebook group: Pulaki z Wilni. The members of the group are mostly young people from Vilnius area in Lithuania, who consider themselves Poles. The grou... see more
Ilga Jansone,Anna Stafecka
Atlas of the Baltic Languages: Plant Names of Slavonic OriginThe article investigates Slavonic-derived plant names in dialects of the two surviving Baltic languages – Latvian and Lithuanian. Historically, these Slavonisms were originally adopted by small-... see more
Jolanta Medelska
On doubling pronominal affixes indicating indefiniteness (based on north borderland and general Polish materials)The present paper presents the results of a study of a number of pronouns, such as czyjkolwiekbadz ‘whose-ever’, jakikolwiekbadz ‘whichever’ a... see more
Tamara Graczykowska
"The outdated" Polish lexis in the interwar period (based on Trybuna Radziecka 1927–1938, letters a–b)This paper discusses 27 lexemes extracted from Trybuna Radziecka, the Polish weekly published in Moscow in 1927–1938 and edited by Polish left-intel... see more
Joanna Joachimiak-Prazanowska
Selected issues in regional syntax questions in the language of Kurier Wilenski from the years 1924–1939The article presents issues of choice in the scope of regional syntax. These are characteristics the most characteristic for the syntax of north a... see more
Malgorzata Ostrówka
Idiomatic expressions in Florian Czarnyszewicz’s novels as a linguistic evidence of mutual relations of the Polish community by the Berezina river at the beginning of the 20th centuryThis article is an attempt at analysing collocations chosen from Florian... see more
Jolanta Klimek
Selected remarks on the phonetics of Letters of Father Parthenius... (1643)This paper is devoted to a selection of issues concerning the phonetics of the 17th-century Kievan variety of Polish, analyzed in the context of the 17th-century standard Poli... see more
????? [Olga] ???????? [Jagintseva]
The etymology of the Russian dialectical word boroshnyaTracking back the origins of locally used words and turns of phrases recorded in literature is important because diachronic linguistic research provides substantial and rather reliable information abo... see more
??????? [Natalija] ????????? [Sindetskaja]
Villem Ernits (1891–1982) – the first Estonian specialist in Polish philologyThe period between the two world wars – 1918–1939 – was the most fruitful time for Polish-Estonian cultural relations. The cooperation of Warsaw and Tallinn was especially intens... see more
Anna Zielinska
Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz
Tomasz Rawski,Katarzyna Roman