The author discusses semantic impulses responsible for the striking grammatical parallelisms between the different linguistic codes evolving in a multilingual environment: a) English and West European Romance languages, on the one hand, and b) members of the so called Balkan Linguistic League, on the other hand.

The article presents more broadly, if not comprehensively, Mikołaj Rudnicki’s achievements in the field of general linguistics, as the only official professor of general linguistics at Poznań University, and very briefly, those of other representatives of Poznań’s linguistic circle.

The article deals with the word formative structure of Polish dialectal plant names. The author presents simple and compound dialectal plant names and discusses their structure. What is emphasized is the richness of the affixes in the formation of dialectal plant names, including affixes untypical of particular categories, and the bi- and multipartite structure of the names. The same phenomena are also observed in dialectal plant names in other Slavic languages.

This article deals with the semantics of the all-Slavic THOUGHT/THINK. Due to their specific and indeed unique properties, which are attested by its frequent occurrence, its extraordinary ability to form words and collocations as well as its notable presence in appellative and onomastic material, this pair of lexical units should be classed as a kind of “semantic operators”. The evidence, which takes into account a broad semantic background and real semantic value, is unequivocal: to acquire real semantic value these core words have to form collocations or to appear in specific contexts. This fact justifies my proposal that the generally accepted etymology of myśl/myśleć (a consensus repeated in various etymological dictionaries which align this form with the Lithuanian maũsti/maudžiù/maudžiaũ (‘to ache slightly but persistently, to feel a dull pain / a prolonged distressing ache / a mild joint pain; to long, desire, want; to bother, pester, bore’) be replaced by an affiliation with the word family rooted in the IE *men-, which is present in the all-Slavic *pamętь ‘memory’. Its irregular phonetic development may have been caused, in accordance with Mańczak’s Law, by the abundance of its compound formations.

In the context of An Outline of the history of linguistics by Adam Heinz, the author mentions and comments upon the views of Roman grammarians (Priscianus, Velius Longus, Flavius Caper, Servius) and other ancient authors (M. F. Quintilianus, A. Gellius) which enable us to learn specific details about the phonic realisation of classical Latin. The statements that are analysed concern the velar allophone of the front nasal /n/ in the position before velar stops, the attenuation of articulation (reduction) of the voiceless velar spirant /h/, the attenuation of the postvocalic nasal /n/ before the fricatives /s/ and /f/ and of the postvocalic /m/ in the word-final position, as well as the lengthened articulation of the intervocalic glide //. In the final part of the article the author mentions the testimonies of grammarians which refer to the ways of accentuation of Latin compounds with enclitics and proclitics.