Grammatical Information in S. B. Linde's Dictionary

Abstract

The subject of the article is a description of the grammatical information in Edition I of S. B. Linde's Dictionary (1807-1815) that is a contribution to a characteristics of the lexicographic methods used by the author of the Dictionary. The information here has a grammatical-semantic character; hence many of its elements do not belong to a formal description of the language. An example of subordinating grammatical information to semantics is Linde's introduction of the Greek category of medium for a description of Polish verbs. In the article attention is also paid to the bilingual (Latin-Polish) grammatical terminology, the syntax of information and lack of uniformity in abbreviations and spelling.