{Dictionarium Germanico-Polonicum,} czyli {Toruński słownik niemiecko-polski}. Toruń 1700-1701
{Dictionarium Germanico-Polonicum - the Torunian German-Polish Dictionary 1700-1701}

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present publication is a manuscript of the German-Polish Dictionary (Dictionarium Germanico-Polonicum) from the year 1701. In the description of the manuscript, the following points are analyzed: - technical data (e.g. information about the format of the dictionary, the number of pages, notes in the margin etc.) - the problem of the authorship of the dictionary - the macrostructure (in this section the reader will find a presentation of the order of the entries, and information on whether geographical names, proper names and diminutive forms were included in the macrostructure of the dictionary; moreover, the way of presenting homonyms in the macrostructure is analyzed) - the entry structure (the author of this study analyzed not only the translation equivalents, but also the order of information included in the entry and examples of usage - basic and metaphorical meaning, illustrative sentences, collocations, idiomatic phrases, and proverbs) - grammatical explanations (this is an attempt to present the morphological and syntactic information regarding the entry headword and its translation equivalents) - the spelling. The last part of the present publication contains a short description of the function of the manuscript (the Dictionary was created especially with German users in mind). Theoretical considerations are supported by numerous examples throughout the publication. Special attention has been paid to making these examples typical of the discussed Dictionary, in order to ensure an objective analysis.

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