Dziewiętnastowieczny słowniczek Artura Dolińskiego z Wileńszczyzny w kontekście badań Profesora Bogusława Nowowiejskiego nad dawną leksykografią gwarową

Abstract

The article presents a manuscript collection of dialect lexicography from the second half of the 19th century by Artur Doliński in the context of Professor Bogusław Nowowiejski’s research on old dialect dictionaries as sources for the history of language. The glossary records the vocabulary characteristic of the folk dialect from the Vilnius area. The author of the article has established that in terms of the workshop, Doliński’s work differs from other studies of this type (the entries do not have an alphabetical arrangement; they are devoid of qualifiers or contexts illustrating exemplary uses of words). However, this does not diminish the value of the study, since the glossary records unknown lexemes from historical Lithuania, and attests to phonetic and grammatical features inherent in the variety of the language from Borderlands. This makes Doliński’s work an important source for the study of Polish dialects in the nineteenth-century northeastern Borderlands.