Dziewiętnastowieczne słowniczki gwarowe jako przedmiot badań językoznawczych
Nineteen-century sub-dialectal glossaries as an object of linguistic research

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present 19th-century sub-dialectal glossaries as sources of various linguistic researches. They reflect the state of knowledge on Polish folk sub-dialects and on their diversity those days, as well as illustrate the evolution of the theory of lexicographic description of subdialectal vocabulary. They recollect the authors of the glossaries – those distinguished, well-known and those forgotten. The certify the existence of numerous interesting words and their meanings (archaisms as well as word formation and semantic innovations), they include a useful material for examining sub-dialectal synonymy. They provide a valuable source for comparative studies, the former and present state, for analysing the changes which have occurred over time and for reconstructing the state of not only the sub-dialectal vocabulary of that time, but also – to a certain extent – phonetics and inflection. They may be also used to observe the 19th-century general language. The glossaries which constitute a record of sub-dialects existing on the borderline of languages serve also for examining language contacts. The majority of the 19th-century collections of folk vocabulary are also helpful when conducting ethnographic research since they account for multiple components of folk culture. Trans. M. Czarnecka

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