The 19th-century dialect glossary from the Podlasie region by Zygmunt Wasilewski as a contribution to the history of the Polish dialect lexicography Cover Image
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XIX-wieczny słowniczek gwarowy z Podlasia Zygmunta Wasilewskiego jako przyczynek do dziejów polskiej leksykografi i gwarowej
The 19th-century dialect glossary from the Podlasie region by Zygmunt Wasilewski as a contribution to the history of the Polish dialect lexicography

Author(s): Stanisław Cygan
Subject(s): Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages, 19th Century, Philology
Published by: Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA
Keywords: dialect glossaries; Polish dialect lexicography; Podlasie region; dialect lexis;

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter described in this paper is the lexicographic work of Zygmunt Wasilewski, a lawyer, politician, columnist, literary critic, which refers to his 19th-century glossary from the Podlasie region. When characterising this small collection of words (282 headwords), the macrostructure and microstructure of the glossary is taken into consideration. Its lexical material is first of all a source of knowledge about the oldest state of Podlasie dialects and research on Polish dialects overall, but it also offers an insight in the methods of this unqualified lexicographer, enthusiast of “folk things”, amateur ethnographer and dialectologist.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 87-99
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish