Title:

Proper names and their derivatives in the “Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish”. The plans, the present state and the prospects for the future

Creator:

Żmigrodzki, Piotr

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2021

Description:

340 pages; 23 cm.

Subject and Keywords:

PAS Great Dictionary of Polish ; general dictionaries of Polish ; macro- and microstucture of the dictionary

Abstract:

The article discusses problems related to proper name entries in Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish. The dictionary has been under construction since 2007 and is available at the following URL: http://wsjp.pl. The first part of the text is devoted to the issue of reasonableness of including proper names in general dictionaries. Critical opinions on the issue raised in the past are recalled and discussed. What follows is a presentation on how the description of proper names, especially geographical names and their derivatives, was envisaged in the early stages of works on the aforementioned dictionary. This vision is then compared with the actual state of being in the current version of the dictionary from 2020. In the final part, further prospects of describing proper names in Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish are presented.

Relation:

Onomastica

Volume:

65

Issue:

2

Start page:

41

End page:

53

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Source:

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Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open