17 articles in this issue
Krystyna Rutkowska
Lithuanian loanwords describing human character and behaviour (based on the material of Polish dialects in Lithuania) The aim of the present article is to describe the vocabulary of Lithuanian origin that correlates with an individual’s psychology. T... see more
Jadwiga Waniakowa
The origin and meaning of the word szkulepaThe article deals with the history and etymology of the word szkulepa ‘jade’, ‘old cow’, ‘old, ugly woman’. It exists in the Doroszewski’s dictionary as an old word with no etymology. The author presents the lexi... see more
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To the history of the ancient family names format on of modern Belarus arealThe aim of the article is investigation of the ancient family names formation of the modern Belarus areal covering three aspects: areal topological, comparatively historical and l... see more
Anna Stafecka
Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot projectDialectologists from Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia and the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, have developed a prop... see more
Asta Leskauskaite,Danguole Mikuleniene
The principles of making maps and commentaries to The Atlas of the Baltic LanguagesPeople in Lithuania and Latvia speak related languages which belong to the Baltic branch. The fate of both states was also similar. After the restoration of independence of... see more
Jolanta Medelska
Russian post-revolutionary abbreviations in the first bilingual Russian dictionariesThe process of real expansion of abbreviations started at the end of 19th century and it developed tremendously in 20th century. The process of creating abbreviations in R... see more
Tamara Graczykowska
The dictionary of Józef Krasny and Polish living Russian language in the interwar period (several remarks about the competition published in „Trybuna Radziecka” in 1930)In 1930 the editor-in-chief of the Russian-Polish Dictionary, Józef Krasny, asked the ... see more
Marek Cieszkowski,Jolanta Medelska
About the need to take up research concerning the Russian version of former Soviet Union’s national minorities’ languagesResearch on the so-called Polish Russian language of the interwar period, i.e. specific type of contemporary Polish used within the te... see more
Joanna Joachimiak-Prazanowska
Russicisms in „Kurier Wilenski” (1925–1939)The article occurs to be the analysis of Russicisms excerpted from “Kurier Wilenski”, a common known newspaper addressed to a wide group of Polish people residing in Vilnius. The daily newspaper was one of the lo... see more
Dorota Pasko
Lexical and syntactic elements of the Russian dialect in the polish language of the old believers from Gabowe Grady and BórThe Old Believers living in Poland are descendants of the Old Believers who did not accept the Patriarch Nikon’s reforms in the seco... see more
Michal Gluszkowski
Preserved dialectal features and the Polish influence in old believers' dialect on the example of a representative of the older generation in the Augustów regionPolish Old Believers constitute a bilingual ethno-cultural minority.Their bilingualism has dev... see more
Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska
A homely–stranger category in local anthroponomy on the example of surnames of Wysokie MazowieckieThe aim of the article is showing the homely–stranger category in relation with local anthroponomy on the example of surnames of inhabitants of a town in Pod... see more
Helena Krasowska
Sociolinguistic situation of Poles in BukovinaIn the present article the author presented the sociolinguistic situation of Poles in Bukovina. She paid attention to the group of Bukovina mountaineers who stayed in Bukovina after the repatriation in 1945 an... see more
Olgierd Chominski
Lithuanian linguistic territory in the Polish state between 1927–1933Olgierd Chominski (1884–1943), professor of Stephan Batory’s University in Vilnius, investigated and described in detail the territory and the boundaries of Lithuanian language in Poland... see more
Iryda Grek-Pabisowa
Religious terminology in Russian dialect of Old Believers in Poland and Bulgaria (records from the years 1969–1973)Records of religious terminology in Bulgaria were conducted by the author, records in Poland were done by people from the community of Old B... see more
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Private sector of culture of the Republic of Belarus: formation and development (1991–2008)In the given research the author on the basis of the historical and genetic analysis, methods of typology and deduction represents the basic segments of sphere of c... see more
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