What is ”A Dictionary of oral Polish language of the north-eastern borderland” and what does it include? Cover Image

Czym jest i co zawiera „Słownik mówionej polszczyzny pónocnokresowej”
What is ”A Dictionary of oral Polish language of the north-eastern borderland” and what does it include?

Author(s): Iryda Grek-Pabisowa, Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz, Mirosław Jankowiak, Małgorzata Ostrówka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Library and Information Science, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: dictionary; headword; meaning; Polish borderland dialects

Summary/Abstract: A regional variety of the Polish language of the north-eastern borderland in both oral and written forms has been functioning in Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia (former Polish Livonia) for several centuries. In 2000, The Team for Research on the Polish Language of the North-Eastern Borderland of the Institute of Slavic Studies of PAS came up with an idea of creating A Dictionary of oral Polish language of the north-eastern borderland. First, publications containing patterns of the Polish language, credibly recorded, were collected. There were more and more new studies, and the material was enriched with many new lexemes as well as their new variants or better exemplifications. Therefore, the lexical collection continued and was completed in 2012. At the same time the team researchers carried out excerpting from earlier texts, choosing examples, searching for parallel forms of lexemes, blending the material in dictionary units, i.e. establishing the form of a dictionary entry. In this way the corpus of the dictionary was written, following a formula created by the team. The article presents methodology of creating the Dictionary, its material basis, short description of lexical items included and the content of an entry.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 277-301
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish