The aim of the article is to discuss and evaluate the portrayal of the Polish language of the northern borderlands in three novels by Józef Weyssenhoff: Unia, Soból i panna, and Puszcza. The author highlights the significance of certain biographical facts and personal experiences of the writer in determining the credibility of the literary material. She emphasizes the wealth of information included in the novels, which reveals the writer's deep knowledge of the realities of the borderlands. However, she pays particular attention to the regional variety of Polish recorded in the texts, as attested in the Kaunas region and Polesie at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author analyzes the extensive use of linguistic stylization, through which the writer conveys valuable information about the condition of the Polish language in the borderlands, and various formal features of the Polish spoken in the northern borderlands.
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