The Making of a Language : The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice

The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice

By: Tomasz Wicherkiewicz

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Hardcover | 1 December 2002

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The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland. The manuscripts, written in the ethnolect at the beginning of the 20th century, were discovered in 1989. The book contains full versions of several texts of various length written by Florian Biesik, who decided to create a literary standard for Wilamowicean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements of the local culture during the final stages of its extinction.

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Acknowledgements	p. v
Abbreviations and symbols	p. vii
Preliminaries	p. 1
General introduction	p. 1
Methodological remarks	p. 3
Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave	p. 5
The town of Wilamowice	p. 5
The history of Wilamowice and its ethnolect	p. 6
Literature on Bielsko-Biala and other Silesian German linguistic enclaves	p. 13
Origin of the ethnolect	p. 15
The Wilamowicean ethnotheory of origin	p. 15
Translation of Biesik VIII. Wymysau an wymysojer	p. 19
Literature in Wilamowicean	p. 25
Florian Biesik	p. 31
Florian Biesik's manuscript	p. 31
Illustrations	p. 35
Florian Biesik's introduction to BiesikI. Of jer welt	p. 41
Florian Biesik's biography	p. 48
Florian Biesik's texts	p. 53
Of jer welt	p. 53
Footnotes to BiesikI	p. 267
Om mjer	p. 331
Footnotes to BiesikII	p. 347
S'wymysojerysze	p. 352
Dy druzba	p. 355
S wymysojer makia	p. 358
Dy "saison halykja"	p. 360
Footnotes to BiesikVI	p. 367
S gre-gre-gregory	p. 370
Wymysau an Wymysojer	p. 373
Dy nojy poterbawa kultur	p. 377
Footnotes to BiesikIX	p. 387
S'wymysojer wunder	p. 389
Footnotes to BiesikX	p. 396
Orthographic and phonetic issues	p. 399
Grammatical issues	p. 413
Syntax	p. 413
Word order	p. 413
Double negation	p. 413
Accusativus cum infinitivo	p. 413
Sequence of tenses	p. 414
Morphology	p. 414
Verbal forms	p. 414
Auxiliary verbs	p. 414
Inflection	p. 419
Genitive	p. 419
Plural	p. 419
Pronouns and conjunctions	p. 420
Grammatical integration of loanwords	p. 420
Diminutives	p. 421
Honorific forms	p. 421
Morphonology	p. 422
Umlaut	p. 422
Breaking	p. 422
Other features of Wilamowicean (mor)phonology	p. 423
Lexical semantics	p. 425
Kinship terms	p. 425
Family names	p. 428
Christian names	p. 431
Nicknames	p. 432
Toponymics	p. 433
Language archaisms and dialectisms	p. 437
Ethnolinguistic issues	p. 439
Folk costumes	p. 439
Folk culture	p. 441
Weaving industry and trade	p. 442
Folk mythology	p. 443
Local cuisine	p. 444
Religious life	p. 445
Polish patriotism, anti-Germanism and anti-Semitism	p. 445
Endnotes	p. 447
Appendices	p. 457
Index of persons referred to in Biesik's poems	p. 457
Index of words and forms used in Biesik's poems not recorded in Mojmir's dictionary	p. 461
Phonetic transcription (first 36 stanzas of Of jer welt)	p. 467
Florian Biesik's texts published by Heinrich Anders (1933)	p. 473
References	p. 523
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