Published: 2025-06-30

A new synthesis of the history of the Polish language – current state of work on the concept

Tomasz Mika Logo ORCID , Magdalena Pastuch Logo ORCID

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The article consists of two parts. The first one is of a reporting character and presents the concept of a new synthesis of the history of the Polish language worked out by a group of scholars at the Commission on the History of Language of the Committee on Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. This conception assumes the elaboration of 3 volumes, the first of which is to concern the theory and methods applied in historical linguistics, the second is to cover the chronological approach, and the third is to present the most important problems in the history of the Polish language, especially those not yet described in synthetic studies. The second part of the article is problem-oriented and deals with the notion of change, which is the most important for the diachronic description and diachronic research understood in this case in a broad and multifaceted way. On the one hand, the authors discuss the change of language, proposing a way of understanding and describing it, on the other hand, they show a change in the approach to historical-linguistic research (on the example of research into Old Polish language). In the conclusion, the authors present their view on further work and discuss their idea of preparing the concept of a fourth volume, which would present the history of the Polish language focusing on language varieties, language variants and contacts between languages.

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Mika, T., & Pastuch, M. (2025). A new synthesis of the history of the Polish language – current state of work on the concept . Forum Lingwistyczne, 13(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2025.13.1.13

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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