Studia Językoznawcze
synchroniczne i diachroniczne aspekty badań polszczyzny
Previously: Studia Językoznawcze : synchroniczne i diachroniczne aspekty badań polszczyzny
O staropolskich i późniejszych derywatach i frazeologizmach z elementem skoro (z uwzględnieniem tła słowiańskiego)
(On old Polish and later derivatives and idioms with the skoro element (considering the slavic background))
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| ISSN: | 1730-4180 |
| eISSN: | 2353-3161 |
| Authors: |
Mirosława
Wronkowska-Dimitrowa
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy |
| Keywords: | history of words derivative and category and meaning changes of the element and its structure’ frequency of derivatives throughout the ages and the external history of the Polish language |
| Issue / book publication date: | 2013 |
| Page range: | 9 (237-245) |
| OAI-PMH: | Metadata |
 
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Abstract
The article presents and comments (based on material coming from Polish language
dictionaries of Old Polish time, the 16th as well as 19th and 20th century, and also
Old Slavonic background) on semantic transformation, in which the word forasmuch as
underwent in its history: from independent word – adverb of meaning ‘quick, fast’ to
the role of functional word – a conjunction ‘when, as’ that introduces a time subordinate
clause or ‘if, because’ that introduces a condition or cause subordibate clause. The categorial
transformation of the ‘forasmuch as’ word becomes a basis to explain a vivacity of derivatives
from this word and declining the meaning shifts in them. Diversity in the space
of centuries in derivatives’ attendance and semantics with component ‘forasmuch as’ is
connected with external history of Polish language (main Eastern Slavic infl uances).