Adoptowałem psa – o nowych użyciach leksemów adopcja, adoptować, zaadoptować we współczesnej polszczyźnie
Adoptowałem psa [I adopted a dog] – on new uses of the lexemes adopcja, adoptować, zaadoptować [adoption, to adopt] in the contemporary Polish

Summary/Abstract: The lexemes ADOPCJA (‛adoption’), ADOPTOWAĆ, ZAADOPTOWAĆ (‛to adopt’), arerecorded in most dictionaries of contemporary Polish, in dictionaries of correct Polish and dictionaries of loanwords only in one meaning: ‛taking a child of another as one’s own’, ‛to take a child of other parents as one’s own’. The author analyses the uses of forms of these lexemes in other meanings, which are not recorded in dictionaries of Polish (or are recorded only in some of them), e.g. adopcja zwierząt/psów/kotów (‛adoption of animals/dogs/cats’), adoptować/zaadoptować drzewo/rzekę/zabytek (‛to adopt a tree/river/listed heritage structure’). The author regards the influence of English as a probable reason for extending the connectivity of the analysed lexemes and associated neo-semantisation.

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