22 articles in this issue
Ilga Jansone
On flora semantics in house names found in Vidzeme: materials contained in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme provinceThe information of the counting of souls containing both house names and names of individuals is an essential aspect of historical ono... see more
Malgorzata Maria Ostrówka
Tomb inscriptions in Rezekne and Kraslava (Latvia) as an example of co-existence of cultures and languages in LatgaleThe article presents structural and linguistic analysis of tomb inscriptions in two cemeteries in Latgale, Latvia – in Rezekne and Kraslav... see more
Katarzyna Konczewska
Notes about the Polish language gravestone inscriptions in Grodno regionThe article presents the analysis of features of the Polish language displayed in gravestone inscriptions of the chosen Catholic cemeteries of Grodno region – Kvasovka, Indura, Vereyk... see more
Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz
A contribution to the image of Polish Livonia nobility in the Latvian historical sources and studies of the early Twentieth CenturyPolish literature devoted to the role of the Poles in shaping Latvian culture presents unanimity as far as the positive role... see more
Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska
19th century ethnological research on the territory of Latvia in view of correspondence of Stefania Ulanowska to Jan KarlowiczLetters, which are the basis of the article, are a part of Jan Karlowicz’s (a 19th century ethnographer, lexicographer) heritage ... see more
Vilija Sakalauskiene,Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa
Philology and identity. The Polish-Lithuanian dialogue on father Antoni Juszkiewicz (Antanas Juška), as author of translational dictionariesThe nineteenth-century lexicographical legacy of Fr. Antoni Juszkiewicz (Antanas Juška) is a common linguistic and ... see more
Krystyna Rutkowska
About layers of lexis of Lithuanian origins in the Ignalina–Zarasai regionIn this study lexical lithuanisms were analysed, functioning in the Ignalina–Zarasai area, on the Lithuanian–Latvian–Belarussian borderland. Lithuanian proceeds on Slavic dialect ha... see more
Joanna Joachimiak-Prazanowska
Specific dictionary analytisms and idiomatic phrases in the Polish interwar Vilnius press (on the basis of the “Kurier Wilenski”)This article presents specific dictionary analytisms and idiomatic phrases used in the Polish language of Kurier Wilenski in t... see more
Norbert Ireneusz Ostrowski
Back-formation in the history of the Lithuanian prefixal verbsThis paper discusses the development of several Lithuanian prefixal verbs (su-bradžióti ‘to do a wrong thing’, iš-skìlti ‘to strike spark’, at-vérti / už-vérti ‘to open / to close’, iš-réikšti ... see more
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Deantroponymic names in the Belarusian-Polish frontierThe article analyzes deantroponymic toponyms of Grodno land, recorded in written materials of 15th – 17th centuries in comparison with current data. The origin, structure and evolution of the areal fea... see more
Dorota Angelika Pasko-Koneczniak
Elements of the Belarusian language in the Russian dialect used by the Old Believers living in the Suwalki-Augustów regionThe article deals with the Belarusian elements in the Russian dialect of the Old Believers living in Poland. The Old Believers arrive... see more
Jolanta Medelska
The soviet press in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1930s. Introduction to the topic and remarks regarding languageThe author presents in brief the most significant facts from the history of Germans in Russia (from the Manifes... see more
Katarzyna Wegorowska
Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands in the light of erudite linguisticsThe essay contains reflections on the ways of using erudite linguistics, a young discipline created by me, in the study of the Grand Duchy ... see more
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‘Lord’s punishment’ and ‘Lord’s miracle’ in the oral stories about the violation of sanctities in the texts of Contemporary Ukrainian Rural TraditionThe article deals with the investigation of a concept of ‘Lord’s punishment’ and ‘Lord’s miracle’ in the f... see more
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Some aspects of the codification phenomenon of contemporary Slavic paganism (in light of from field study material)On the basis of material received from a survey of three Russian pagan associations, the author discusses some features of "rodn... see more
Robert Zawisza
An Absent Biography. About the life and work of Ireneusz Plater-ZyberkIreneusz Plater-Zyberk (1896–1946), was a writer and a film producer, adventurer and gallant. His life is an incredible story of the disabled individual who succeeded in an amazing care... see more
Miroslaw Jankowiak
In 2013 in Riga the monumental study entitled Latvieši un Latvija (Latvians and Latvia) was published. The book under review consists of four volumes: Latvians; Statehood in Latvia and the Latvian State – established and lost; The restored Latvian state; ... see more
Tomasz Kamil Otocki
Andreas Fülberth, "Riga. Kleine Geschichte der Stad"At the beginning of 2014, the book „Riga. Kleine Geschichte der Stadt” (Riga. A short history of the town) was issued. The author is Andreas Fülberth, a young historian from Germany, who is a lecturer of... see more
Michal Gluszkowski
The review concerns two books devoed to the sociocultural, historical and lingusitic situation of Vilnius region (Lithuania). The author compares G. Dabrowski's 'simple' ethnography and the practical application of his theories in the volume "Wilenszczyzn... see more
Ewa Golachowska
The monograph by Anna Engelking Kolkhoz members. Antropological study of identity in the Belorussian country at the turn of 20th and 21st centuries contains results of the research thet has been carried out for twenty years in Belarus. The author poses qu... see more
The subject of the review is a book of Ewa Golachowska How to talk to God? The book is a report from the field. The author moves on the issue of distribution of functional languages spoken by Catholics in Belarus (Polish, Belarusian, Russian) in cros... see more
Dorota Pazio-Wlazlowska
„Mifologicheskie modeli i ritual’noe povedenie v sovetskom i postsovetskom prostranstve: sbornik statei” Arkhipova, A. (Comp.), Moskva: TSentr tipologii i semiotiki fol’klora RGGU 2013, pp. 472The volume under discussion, entitled ?????????????? ?????? ? ... see more