CECHY GWAROWE W OPOWIEŚCIACH UCIESZNYCH MICHAŁA KAJKI
DIALECTAL FEATURES IN OPOWIEŚCI UCIESZNE [AMUSING STORIES] BY MICHAŁ KAJKA

Summary/Abstract: The article’s aim is to analyze the features of Masurian dialects found in the lyrical and epic works of Michał Kajka. The analysis concerns Kajka’s Opowieści ucieszne [Amusing Stories], published in 2008 in a volume titled Mały kancjonał mazurski i opowieści ucieszne [A Small Masurian Can- tional and Amusing Stories], edited linguistically and provided with an introduction by Zbigniew Chojnowski. The collection consists of twenty-eight literary works. The selection of texts for analysis was dictated by their subject matter and their peasantlike, moralistic, humorous, and ironic character. For expressive purposes, Kajka introduced into his works dialectal forms and lexemes. Overall, eight phonetic and sixteen inflectional features were described. Each of the features was accompanied by numerous quotations. The article also contains a collection of dialectal lexemes.

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