Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
Summary
Introduction
Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld has extensively and expertly studied English-Polish language contact contributing to a better understanding of cultural and linguistic changes occurring in Poland over the last decades. Whereas her studies analyse and document the English loanwords in Polish, this note discusses elements of Celtic origin present in contemporary Polish vocabulary. Section 2 of the paper briefly introduces the phenomenon of language contact, Section 3 lists the ancient Celtic elements which found their way into Polish (and numerous other modern languages), Section 4 presents the more recent borrowings from Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, and Section 5 mentions the most recent cases of possible direct borrowings.
Language contact and borrowings
The term language contact can refer to a process, state, result of the process, or the appropriate field of research. Probably the most concise definition of language contact understood as a process/state has been provided by Sarah G. Thomason: “Language contact is the use of more than one language in the same place at the same time” (Thomason 2001: 1). As the same author points out, “language contact is the norm, not the exception” (Thomason 2001: 10). It is necessary to remember that language contact is “really the contact of one community with another, and the effect that contact has on their respective language behavior” (Wheeler 2015: 76); furthermore, languages in contact “are, after all, the result of people in contact and of communities of people of different language backgrounds in contact” (Clyne 2003: 1), and:
“Contact” is, of course, a metaphor: language “systems” do not genuinely touch or even influence one another. The relevant locus of contact is the language processing apparatus of the individual multilingual speaker and the employment of this apparatus in communicative interaction. It is therefore the multilingual speaker’s interaction and the factors and motivations that shape it that deserve our attention in the study of language contact. (Matras 2009: 3)
However, for ease of exposition, the metaphorical form will be used throughout this paper.
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- Languages in Contact and ContrastA Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, pp. 415 - 426Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2020