<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The onset of Professor Jacek Fisiak’s scholarly career is marked by his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation devoted to the lexical influence of English upon Polish. This study, conducted 55 years ago, offers a multilayered analysis and sets the standards of studies on lexical transfer from English to Polish for the years to come. The present article is a tribute to Fisiak’s first scholarly endeavor; it examines the fate of lexical items comprising Fisiak’s corpus in the second decade of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. More specifically, by conducting searches in the <italic>National Corpus of Polish</italic> as well as a Google search, the paper checks which borrowings to the Polish language listed and scrutinized by Fisiak gained popularity, which fell out of use, and which underwent semantic changes.</p></abstract>

The onset of Professor Jacek Fisiak’s scholarly career is marked by his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation devoted to the lexical influence of English upon Polish. This study, conducted 55 years ago, offers a multilayered analysis and sets the standards of studies on lexical transfer from English to Polish for the years to come. The present article is a tribute to Fisiak’s first scholarly endeavor; it examines the fate of lexical items comprising Fisiak’s corpus in the second decade of the 21st century. More specifically, by conducting searches in the National Corpus of Polish as well as a Google search, the paper checks which borrowings to the Polish language listed and scrutinized by Fisiak gained popularity, which fell out of use, and which underwent semantic changes.

<italic>Buszel</italic>, <italic>Kombajner</italic>, and <italic>Rels</italic>: Fisiak’s 1961 Corpus of English Borrowings in Polish Fifty Five Years Later

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The onset of Professor Jacek Fisiak’s scholarly career is marked by his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation devoted to the lexical influence of English upon Polish. This...

Buszel, Kombajner, and Rels: Fisiak’s 1961 Corpus of English Borrowings in Polish Fifty Five Years Later

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 63 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0015

Keywords
borrowings, calques, English borrowings in Polish, semantic change, lexical change

© 2016 Radosław Dylewski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Buszel, Kombajner, and Rels: Fisiak’s 1961 Corpus of English Borrowings in Polish Fifty Five Years Later

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 63 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0015

Keywordsborrowings, calques, English borrowings in Polish, semantic change, lexical change

© 2016 Radosław Dylewski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
borrowings, calques, English borrowings in Polish, semantic change, lexical change