Pamiętnik dla dzieci Heleny Masalskiej – świadectwo polszczyzny łotewskiej XX wieku
Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska: A Testimony of Twentieth-Century Latvian Polish

Summary/Abstract: This article presents Pamiętnik dla dzieci [A Memoir for Children] by Helena Masalska, a text which may not be very long but is certainly important for scholars documenting the Latvian variety of twentieth-century Polish. Written in a colloquial variety of the language in 1992, the memoir tells about the childhood and the youth of the author, born in 1917. The study considers the influence of Russian and Latvian as well as a dialect of Belarusian on the author’s Polish, provides a description of its features of spelling, and reconstructs the sociolinguistic situation in which the Polish of Helena Masalska was shaped.

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