Toponimy w słownikach ogólnych języka polskiego

Abstract

In the following article, the author wants to answer the question of whether and in what way names – based on examples of toponyms – should be described in the general dictionaries of the Polish language. The problem of the description of onimistic units within the linguistic lexicography is not a new problem, but the one already dealt with on numerous occasions, for example, in the work of Kazimierz Rymut [1988], Aleksandra Cieślikowa [1993], Wojciech Chlebda [2000] and Bożena Dereń [2005]. However, this problem is still valid and current. The issue of the validity of those increasingly problematic aspects of the language is failure to provide a coherent concept for names – description within the non-onomastic and non-specialist lexicographical works, which is directly influenced by the fact that these units are being omitted in most dictionaries. Consequently, one of the first aspects which needs to be taken into consideration when planning action is the presentation of the stance taken to deal with the problem of semantic values nomina propria and the discussion about the presence of toponyms in selected 19th and 20th-century dictionaries. Then the proposition of the description concept of the lexicographic names is presented, based on selected toponyms, which on the one hand, draws on the research in the field of linguistics and semantics onomastics, and on the other hand is a direct outcome of the analysis of the texts collected in the National Corpus of the Polish Language.