Published: 2020-09-09

On the motivation for linguistic changes with regard to inflectional morphology of the spoken Lemko language

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Abstract

The fact that the Lemko language is placed in the ethnolinguistic Western Slavic area next to the Polish language, which is dominant from the sociolinguistic point of view, has had and continues to have a significant impact on its development. Consequently, the Lemko language, similarly to other (Slavic) micro-languages, should be considered susceptible to changes resulting from the impact of exogenous factors, which can be observed even on a morphological level, which is generally perceived as particularly resistant to external influences. However, research conducted on the basis of material from the spoken corpus of the Lemko language shows that not all linguistic changes currently taking place in that language have been caused by the impact of Polish.

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Reis, A. (2020). On the motivation for linguistic changes with regard to inflectional morphology of the spoken Lemko language. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 23(1), 121–141. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9782

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2019)
Published: 2020-10-26


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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