Suffixes -izna and -ota as the manifestations of linguistic separateness and autonomy in the currently developing Cassubian literary language Cover Image

Sufiksy -izna i -ota jako znamiona odrębności językowej w formowanym współcześnie kaszubskim języku literackim
Suffixes -izna and -ota as the manifestations of linguistic separateness and autonomy in the currently developing Cassubian literary language

Author(s): Hanna Taborska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: Cassubian (Cashubian) dialects; Cassubian (Cashubian) literary language; Polish language; neologisms

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the modern popular-scientific, literary, and religious texts that are written in the Cassubian literary language shows a particularly huge amount of neologisms that are developed by suffixes -izna and -ota. These neologisms are used to define the concepts and designates that so far did not exist in the Cassubian dialects and, as a rule, constitute the words that differ from their equivalents in the meaning, which function in the Polish literary language.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 57
  • Page Range: 261-270
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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