Published: 2024-11-27

Defining grammatical terms in dictionaries by Knapiusz and Trotz

Martyna Sabała-Bolek

Abstract

This paper presents the ways of defining lexical units (including grammatical terms) used to describe the Polish language system recorded in Grzegorz Knapiusz’s Thesaurus (ed. 1621, 1643, 1644) and in Nowy dykcjonarz by Michał Abraham Trotz (ed. 1764). The material analysed included units with synonymic definitions, having equivalents or extensive definitions in foreign languages only, as well as lexemes without Polish or foreign-language equivalents. The article attempts to determine to what extent the collected linguistic terms and the ways in which they are presented in both dictionaries may be relevant to diachronic studies of Polish grammatical terminology.

Keywords:

definition, grammar, Polish language, lexicography, dictionary, grammatical term

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Sabała-Bolek, M. (2024). Defining grammatical terms in dictionaries by Knapiusz and Trotz. Poradnik Językowy, 817(8), 30–39. Retrieved from https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/1512

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