Studia Krystyny Długosz-Kurczabowej nad gwarą zagnańską

Dialectology was a secondary area of K. Długosz-Kurczabowa’s scientific interests and yet it was an extremely important field to her for personal reasons. She began her academic adventure with her Master’s thesis titled Porównanie dwóch wsi małopolskich w zakresie morfologii i słownictwa (A comparison of two Lesser Polish villages in terms of morphology and lexis) [1962]. One of them was her home village – Zagnańsk (Kielce Powiat), while the other – Książnice Wielkie (Kazimierza Wielka Powiat). She had not returned to the long abandoned dialectological research until the beginning of the 21st century. Its aim was to demonstrate the changes which had occurred in the Zagnańsk dialect over the past half century. The trend for integrating the dialect with the colloquial variant of standard Polish was found the most fundamental one by her. This is the subject matter to which she dedicated three papers (Językowe procesy integracyjne (na materiale małopolskiej gwary wsi Chrusty) (Linguistic integration processes (on the material of the Lesser Polish dialect of the village of Chrusty)) [2005], O przemijaniu pewnych słów (na materiale gwary Zagnańska w województwie świętokrzyskim) (On disappearance of certain words (on the material of the dialect of Zagańsk in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship)) [2015], Gwara Zagnańska pół wieku później (The Zagańsk dialect half century later) [2006]. She also prepared Słownik gwary zagnańskiej (The dictionary of the Zagańsk dialect). Its innovation in comparison to the existing dialect dictionaries consists in containing etymological explanations.