Słowotwórstwo w dorobku naukowym Marii Honowskiej

Abstract

The goal of the paper is not so much to discuss Maria Honowska’s achievements in Slavonic derivatol-ogy – this has already been done by Ludwig Selimski – but rather to highlight the individuality of her thought in word-formational research of the sixties and seventies. The focus is on those fragments of her work which proved prognostic, such as underlining the importance of derivational chains in decoding word formations, indicating the value of generativist approach to word-formational analy-sis, or emphasizing the significance of non-serial phenomena which often have a pragmatic function (as Honowska wrote about ‘word-formational advertising’). Some of her postulates are still yet to be realized, as is e.g. the regarding of word formation as a part of morphology rather than as a separate level in the language system.