Galanty i galancie jako leksykalne wykładniki stopnia natężenia cechy w gwarach i polszczyźnie ogólnej.

The author presents the functions of the lexical exponents of gradationswith a dialectal origin, namely of: the adjective galanty and the averbs galancie,galancio, galanto in the colloquial Polish language and Polish dialects. Basedon dialectal and general Polish data coming from published works (dictionaries,atlases, dialectal monographs) and unpublished collections of vocabulary, shediscusses their gradational meanings falling into three semantic categories:sufficiency (e.g. galancie osób pojechało (‘quite many’ people have gone)),completeness (e.g. zupa galanta (‘quite a good’ soup)), and intensity (e.g. galanciewąski (a ‘very’ narrow)). The identifi cation of the meanings of the discussedforms as exponents of the intensity of a characteristic is, in most cases,conditioned on the context. They express various values of many gradationalcharacteristics which are extracted while being actualised in a sentence. Due totheir limited distribution (mainly Greater Poland, Kuyavia, Łęczyce and SieradzLand, northern Lesser Poland, Masovia, Chełmno and Dobrzyń Land) andpresence in the colloquial Polish language, the discussed forms can be classifi edas regionalisms with a dialectal origin.