O losie niektórych leksemów gwarowych w sytuacji zaniku gwar
On the fate of some dialectal lexemes in the situation of dialect disappearance

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns the durability of dialectal vocabulary in the situation in which local dialects are disappearing. It turns out that although the use of local dialects is decreasing, local dialect lexis has not disappeared completely. This is because some dialectal words are being incorporated into colloquial language. The intensity of this phenomenon varies – from occasional occurrences to strong rooting in the lexicon of colloquial Polish. The basis for these considerations is the word bambuch (belly) and a few other units from its word family (bambuszek, rozbambuszyć, wybambuszyć). The way they function in the colloquial language has been traced in the utterances of Internet users published on different forums. As the mate­ rial analysis reveals, local dialect words often become components of colloquial utterances, as a result of which they maintain their vivacity and it is possible for them to be included in general Polish vocabulary.

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