Studia Językoznawcze

synchroniczne i diachroniczne aspekty badań polszczyzny


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Issue archive / t. 12, 2013
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))

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
Whole issue publication date:2013
Page range:9 (237-245)

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).
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