Ewolucja zakresu pojęciowego niesufiksalnych technik słowotwórczych

The goal of the paper is to remind the reader about paradigmatic derivation, clipping and derivation by exchange of prefixes, three recently recognized and defined techniques of word-formation. The author points out that, thanks to more than a dozen detailed studies and three important monographs, the description of the Polish system of word-formation gained in simplicity and distinctness, thus also benefitting academic didactics. Introducing the distinction between paradigmatic derivation and clipping proved particularly advantageous. The fate of derivation by exchange of affixes, which we are now forced to reduce to derivation by exchange of prefixes, proved to be both interesting and surprising. The paper emphasizes the input of Professor Bogusław Kreja as a contributor or inspirer of every one of the research areas mentioned above. We can only regret that he never voiced his opinion about the so-called derivation by alternation, a problem which still requires a deeper analysis.