Moje badania gwarowe na Warmii i Mazurach

Abstract

The article reminds about dialectological research, which were conducted shortly after World War II by a distinguished Polish linguist, Prof. Janusz Siatkowski (born 1929), in former East Prussia, inhabited by people speaking Polish. As the researcher recounts: „In 1950-1952 I participated in the research of the vernacular conducted in Warmia and Masuria by Professor Witold Doroszewski. They were preceded by a short training in Warsaw and a meeting of the whole team in Olsztyn. After this meeting we set out to do research in groups of 2-3 people. In 1950 I was in the group led by Jadwiga Chludzińska. Then, as a deputy assistant, but still a student, I was a leader of such groups. The research involved gathering the old folk vocabulary on the basis of a comprehensive questionnaire divided into 27 thematic sections with a total of 3691 questions.”