Funkcja semantyczna formantu -ka we współczesnej polszczyźnie

Abstract

The first part of the article is devoted to the general characteristics and the discussion of the semantic function of the formative “-ka” which belongs to the group of the most active suffixes in the modern Polish language. It points to the direction of development and the graduate inheriting of the role of common Polish exponent by the formative. In the second part of the text, the relationship between the phenomenon of the expansion of the colloquial style into the language and the stylistic shifts of the derivational structures using the given formative will be covered. In order to do this, I am going to collate the frequency involvement of the common lexemes with the suffix “-ka” taken from the two of the biggest Polish dictionaries: the Universal Polish language dictionary (Dubisz, 2003) and the Polish Dictionary (Doroszewski, 1958–1969).