Volume 143, Issue 2

2026

Publication date: 14.05.2026

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The publication has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.

Cover designer: Paweł Bigos.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Anna Tereszkiewicz

Additional redactors Kamil Stachowski

Language Editor Ann Cardwell

Issue content

A note on the origin of the ablative case in modern Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic)

José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 2, 2026, pp. 49-65

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.005.23464

According to modern descriptions of Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic), the ablative case ending is -minngaanii(t). There is no record of such an ending in the early documentation of the language from around the turn of the twentieth century. This brief contribution attempts to reconcile these two facts by proposing that the ablative in modern Tunumiisut is an innovation that resulted from the interaction of the noun and the demonstrative declensions which is facilitated by well-known mechanisms in the history of the Inuit-Yupik languages.

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Polish Nasal Assimilation: Directionality and opacity

Tomasz Łuszczek

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 2, 2026, pp. 67-86

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.006.23465

This paper investigates Polish Nasal Assimilation from the perspective of Optimality Theory (OT), as documented by words such as [sɛmp] ‘vulture’ and [bɔŋk] ‘bumblebee’. It is argued that, contrary to standard assumptions, the directionality of assimilation is not determined by positional faithfulness constraints, but rather is controlled by general faithfulness constraints that require identity to place nodes and are crucially unidirectional. This new analysis of Polish is then tested against the data exhibiting interaction of Nasal Assimilation with Coronal Palatalization and with Yer Deletion. The former interaction is transparent and thus analyzable within standard OT, whereas the latter interaction is opaque and demonstrates that standard OT fails to deliver the correct results. The final section offers a reanalysis of the opaque data in terms of a version of OT that admits derivational levels.

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Word-initial consonant clusters in Turkish: Evidence from transcription texts

Hilal Oytun Altun

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 2, 2026, pp. 87-99

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.007.23466

Transcription texts of Turkish record a phonetic phenomenon rarely attested in other Turkish sources: word-initial consonant clusters in items of non-Western origin. Although Turkish regularly admits such clusters in Western loanwords, their occurrence in non-Western vocabulary is unexpected from a phonotactic perspective. Numerous examples of cluster-initial spellings appear in transcription texts from the 16th to 20th centuries. The aim of this study is to determine which of these forms reflect genuine phonetic developments and which are merely products of source-specific orthographic practices. While many items are written with initial clusters, only fourteen can be reliably interpreted as phonetic in origin. The remaining cases must be approached cautiously, as the orthographic conventions of certain authors – particularly Argenti, Ferraguto, and Molino – frequently obscure the underlying pronunciation.

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How many types of etymology are there?

Marek Stachowski

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 2, 2026, pp. 101-111

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.008.23467

The aim of this article is to attempt to determine how many types of etymology can be distinguished and what relations exist between them. The final results are presented at the end of the article in the form of a table and a diagram.

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Słowa kluczowe: Inuit-Yupik-Unangax languages, case, typology, historical linguistics, Optimality Theory, Nasal Assimilation, opacity, Polish, positional faithfulness, transcription texts, word-initial consonant clusters, apheresis, syncope, metathesis, etymology, folk etymology, perceptual etymology, lexicology, general linguistics

Funding information

The publication has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.