Abstract:
The basis of these contemplations is the empirical data deriven from the electronic dialectal corpus kept in the Department of Dialect Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Mostly, the lexis was collected among the inhabitants of the same country via interviews with 72 interlocutors. It consist of 535 711 word forms. The basis is the part of more complex structure - corpus of contemporary Greater Poland dialects. It includes 1 500 000 word forms and each of them is followed by such pieces of information as, year of birth and the initials of the research participant, date of the recording, location together with the geographical coordinates.
The extensiveness of the material is helpful to not only to make conclusions essential for the description of the language of contemporary country, but also to find the phenomena for the language history researchers. In this case, the progress of linguistic change is visible.
The material presented in the article shows specifity of several word - formation phenomena, i.e.
- dialectal synonymy;
- linguistic change characteristic in accordance with the stratification of generations;
- idiodialectal phenomena.
