TY - JOUR TI - Die Bedeutung der sprachhistorischen Forschungen in Polen AU - Wiktorowicz, Józef TI - Die Bedeutung der sprachhistorischen Forschungen in Polen AB - The paper emphasises the importance of research on the history of German used on the territory of Poland. The studies on the history of the German language and dialects based on texts from Polish urban archives were the focus of Germanic studies in Poland during the pre-World War II period. After the war, such research continued until the late 1960s but was interrupted later. Currently Polish language historians concentrate on the study of early Modern High German text sources from Polish urban archives and the examination of their graphemic, phonetic, syntactic, lexical features and text typology. Also examined are endangered dialects spoken on the territory of Poland. VL - 2015 IS - Issue 2 (2015) PY - 2015 SN - 2353-656X C1 - 2353-4893 SP - 159 EP - 166 DO - 10.4467/23534893ZG.15.012.3181 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeitschrift-des-verbandes-polnischer-germanisten/article/die-bedeutung-der-sprachhistorischen-forschungen-in-polen KW - Early New High German KW - graphemic and phonetic analysis KW - German dialects in Poland