Will the "Dictionary of 16th Century Polish" and other corpus-based dictionaries of subsequent periods confirm Prof. Witold Mańczak's theory?  Cover Image

Czy "Słownik polszczyzny XVI wieku" i słowniki korpusowe następnych okresów potwierdzą teorię Profesora Witolda Mańczaka
Will the "Dictionary of 16th Century Polish" and other corpus-based dictionaries of subsequent periods confirm Prof. Witold Mańczak's theory?

Author(s): Maria Karpluk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Keywords: quantitative linguistics; irregular phonetic development caused by frequency; statistics in the "Dictionary of 16th Century Polish"

Summary/Abstract: Giving the example of vocative kše! ‘księże!’ recorded in the "Dictionary of 16th Century Polish" relatively rarely, but frequent in non-excerpted polemical "Conversations" by Wit Korczewski, the authoress points to the validity of Prof. Mańczak’s theory. Yet, a further explanation of the history of this form, i.e. in which environment it originated, by whom it was used, to whom it was addressed and why it disappeared, belongs to sociolinguistics. Contemporary corpus-based dictionaries, gathering multimillion examples of current lexicon, will be able to capture in statu nascendi and digitally confirm this brilliantly simple theory.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 2-10
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish