Jaki jest właściwie zakres dialektologii historycznej? (Uwagi z perspektywy dialektologa)

Abstract

What Does Historical Dialectology Actually Include? (Remarks from the Perspective of a Dialectologist) The article refers to the contemporary status of Polish dialects and, at the same time, it is a voice in the debate on the scope of historical dialectology. The reference point for the works of W. Taszycki and other, later historians of language, was (and still is) the heritage of K. Nitsch, while, for dialectologists, his texts only offer a historical and/or normative value (in case of revitalization activities) as an example of language used in villages about a hundred years ago. In the publications related to historical dialectology it is assumed that the status of local dialects described by Nitsch is still valid. Dynamic changes that take place in the Polish village require revising this view and, as a result, correcting the scope of historical dialectology which, from the modern perspective, includes the works that describe dialects from the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords

• dialektologia historyczna
• gwary polskie
• socjolingwistyka