Wokół potocznych poznańskich onimów Pomnik, Adaś i Krzyże

The article deals with several urbanonyms existing in the urban Polish language of Poznań and connected with Adam Mickiewicz Square and the two monuments located there: of Adam Mickiewicz and of the Poznań 1956 Protests. The material has been collected by means of a survey which was conducted among 100 Polish language students and 120 older persons (at the age of 35–85 years). The results of studies enabled scholars to observe a great onymic inventiveness of Poznań residents, constantly creating new, distinctly motivated urbanonyms, as well as a significant liveliness and an important role of those names in everyday linguistic communication of the city’s residents, and, consequently – in the regional variety of the Polish language.