Rec. Piotr Sobotka, Etymologia a gramatika: perspektywa funkcjonalna w rekonstrukcji dziejów słów. – Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2023. – 387 s.

The monograph focuses on the study of the origin and development of grammatically orientated language units in North Slavic languages. The author deals particularly with the words with lexicalized grammatical information on the one hand and words with grammaticalized lexical information on the other one. The first three theoretical chapters discuss the place of the etymological research in linguistics, semantic and functional changes in language including the concept of the language unit in dynamic perspective and the questions of lexicalization a grammaticalization. The second part of the book is formed by three „case studies“: Indo-European (and in particular North Slavic) function words related to the concept of truth in comparison with Semitic units, the North Slavic enclitics -kV and -ž(e), and the function words as borrowings – Bohemisms in Polish and Polonisms in Yiddish.