Alejka, bukiet, sponsor, tester — on a certain type of semantic innovations in Polish Cover Image

Alejka, bukiet, sponsor, tester — o pewnym typie neosemantyzmów w języku polskim
Alejka, bukiet, sponsor, tester — on a certain type of semantic innovations in Polish

Author(s): Marcin Zabawa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Keywords: neosemanticisms; semantic borrowings; collocations

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present a few newest neosemanticisms in Polish. The bibliography on semantic innovations in Polish is already quire rich, but new constructions appear in the language all the time; thus, the constant research in the field is a necessity. The present paper concentrates on the analysis of the following words: alejka, bukiet, sponsor and tester. The old meanings of the words are briefly described (on the basis of the monolingual Polish dictionary Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego) and then new meanings are analyzed, with the illustration of quotations from the National Corpus of Polish.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 366-376
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish