The vocabulary of the Borderland from the novel by Florian Czarnyszewicz Nadberezyńcy – a little­‑known evidence of the lost Polish language ...       Cover Image

Słownictwo kresowe z powieści Floriana Czarnyszewicza Nadberezyńcy – mało znane świadectwo zaginionej polszczyzny przełomu XIX i XX wieku
The vocabulary of the Borderland from the novel by Florian Czarnyszewicz Nadberezyńcy – a little­‑known evidence of the lost Polish language ...

Author(s): Iryda Grek-Pabisowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: vocabulary; the North­‑Eastern Borderland; 20th century.

Summary/Abstract: The background of the novel Nadberezyńcy by Florian Czarnyszewicz are historical events of the years 1910–1920 in Bobruysk district and the life of lesser nobility of that land. The author included a typical local vocabulary of Northern Border­land. The vocabulary was excerpted and arranged in a mini­‑dictionary. Next to each entry the author related the lexemes to the vocabulary of the North­‑Eastern Border­land within the territory of Lithuania and Western Belarus and to the languages of the surrounding – Belarusian and Russian. The mini­‑dictionary consists of 710 entries.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 205-228
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish