Disappearing of lexical variations in 16th century Polish language. Variety jenze || który

Authors:

• Paulina Michalska-Górecka

Abstract

The aim of this text is to show the rivalry of two variants: the old jenze and the new który in texts which were published in the 16th century in Krakow. Samples of these forms were taken from Słownik polszczyzny XVI wieku and other texts from that time. Moreover, the article attempts to answer the question which printers in Krakow at that time used both forms and which ones only one form. The collected samples show that the variant jenze had to become extinct in the first half of the 16th century, which can be treated as the end of the normalization process started in the previous epoch. Samples from the 16th century (113 uses) are just a very small part of the examined variety (0,1%).