Eponyms among neologisms of contemporary Polish language

Małgorzata Witaszek-Samborska

Abstract

The article presents eponyms, that is words created from proper nouns, within neologisms that occur in contemporary Polish language. Over 420 eponyms excerpted from the lexicon New Polish Vocabulary. Materials from the Press of 1993 – 2000 edited by Teresa Smolkowa (Krakow 2004-2006) provide material basis of the article. Its author shows eponyms present in all types of neologisms – amongst word forming constructions, borrowings, neo-semanticisms and neo-phraseologisms. Moreover, she analyzes participation of individual onims (antroponims, geonims, ideonims etc.) as basis of apellativization procedures