What “language” do our dogs “bark in” on the eastern border of Poland: in Ruthenian or in Polish? Cover Image

Jak szczekają nasze psy na wschodniej granicy Polski: po rusku czy po polsku?
What “language” do our dogs “bark in” on the eastern border of Poland: in Ruthenian or in Polish?

Author(s): Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska, Janusz Siatkowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Slavonic dialectology; regional vocabular; language contacts; Polish- East Slavonic borderland

Summary/Abstract: The text is devoted to the verb brechać, brzechać “bark” which is one of many examples of an overlap between Polish and East Slavonic systemic features, difficult to classify as native or foreign. The analysis of numerous sources and research papers enables to conclude that both Ruthenian brechać (expansive form that influenced derivatives) and Polish brzechać occured on Polish-East Slavonic borderland. This small difference has been either ignored or interpreted incorrectly in previous research.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 271-280
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish