Niedaleko pada kokos od palmy. O innowacjach przysłowiowych we współczesnej polszczyźnie
The coconut never falls far from the palm tree. On proverbial innovations in the contemporary Polish language

Summary/Abstract: The research on the phenomenon of variantivity in natural languages should comprise all their subsystems. Much attention has been given to phonetic, morphological, lexical,phraseological phenomena, while strictly paremiological ones have been handled to a less-er extent to date. The discussed issue of proverbial innovations in the contemporary Polishlanguage partly fills in the research gap. The factographic material collected in the paper hasshown a significant nominative and expressive potential of paremic units fulfilled as a result ofnumerous modifications of the canonical form of the proverbs used commonly in the Polishlanguage. The said results could be obtained from the paremiological material excerpted withthe use of www.google.com search engine in generally available online resources. The criterionadopted for selecting the initial units was the indicator of their frequency based on the so-called paremiological minimum. Afterwards, a secondary modified proverb was compared toits original, which enabled a description of basic innovation mechanisms and identification ofthe function of a specific registered innovation.

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