Wkład Haliny Turskiej w opracowanie t.VII Ludu białoruskiego Michała Federowskiego
Halina Turska’s contribution in elaboration of Belorussian People vol. VII by Michał Federowski

Summary/Abstract: The present article is elaborated on the grounds of the text of a paper which was delivered in 2001 at a conference dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of Halina Turska’s birth. The paper has not been published so far. Besides working on the ge­neral concept of volume VII of Belorussian People Professor Halina Turska, as a member of the editorial board, elaborated Dictionary of difficult Belorussian vocabulary with a commentary and linguistic annotations which appear in Michał Federowski’s texts. The dictionary consists of c.a. 550 entries. The author of the article presents the method of analyzing entries and deducting their meanings as well as correcting mistakes committed by copyists who had prepared fair copies. Scrupulosity of the analysis of the vocabulary included in the Dictionary of difficult Belorussian vocabulary… is acknowledged by providing vocabulary unrecorded in a dictionary of literary Belorussian. Turska’s dictionary is the first Belorussian-Polish dictionary based on folk poetry. Halina Turska was also the author of linguistic commentaries and annotations for volumes V and VI of songs collected by Michał Federowski. Her considerable and important contribution is extremely valuable for it was based on good knowledge of Belorussian folk rites.

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