Proper names as "cultural lexemes" in polish inner borderlands

Bibliogr. s. 136-139

The subject of the article includes proper names (first names, surnames, names of places and regions, chrematonyms) of Wallachian or Lemko origin which occur in so-called Polish inner borderlands in local dialects (and in general Polish language) and which function as "borderland cultural lexemes". The borderlands in question include the territories located in the Low Beskid Mountains (especially the area of the town of Dukla) which are inhabited (now or only since 1940s) by Polish and Lemko people. The cultural lexemes that occur in this region are linguistic links that not only determine the cultural separateness of the area, but, most of all, the creation of the sense of community of borderland people who, irrespective of their nation, are able to understand the local world of meanings and values due to those lexemes.