Słowotwórstwo gniazdowe na usługach diachronii – w poszukiwaniu efektywnej metody badań zapożyczeń leksykalnych
Nest-oriented description of word-formation at the service of diachronic studies – in search for an effective method of analyzing lexical borrowings

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the main methodological assumptions of nest-oriented description of word-formation that has been developed within synchronic linguistics, as well as to determine the possibility of applying this method to diachronic research. As the data presented in the paper show, the perspective of internal linguistics within historical linguistic research – the visualization of data in a nest word-formation system superimposed on semantic fields – makes it possible to observe the influence of word-formation systems on the adaptation processes and on the frequency of borrowings in the recipient language. Supplementing this research with approaches from the area of historical (and cognitive) sociolinguistics and linguistic pragmatics, against the background of quantitative-corpus analyses, allows for an effective study of the process of lexical borrowing in a diachronic perspective.

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