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    Published: 2024-01-26
    Vol. 809 No. 10 (2023)

    Old grammatical nomenclatures as a source of grammatical knowledge

    Wanda Decyk-Zięba

    Abstract

    The subject of the analysis are terms recorded in the 17th–19th-century grammar nomenclatures. The most numerously represented ones were terms from the fi eld of inflection (naming parts of speech and grammatical categories), there were few terms from the fi eld of phonetics and word-formation, and terms from the field of sentence syntax had not appeared in glossaries until the 19th century. This share of terms from various branches was determined by the utilitarian nature of grammatical works: they were intended for learning Polish or foreign languages. It was assumed a priori, so to speak, that the learner already had the knowledge of the rules of Latin grammar, and the point of reference for Polish terms (or German ones, as in Dobracki’s grammar book) was the Latin terminology. The outcome of the development of grammtical knowledge is the redefinition of grammar itself and its branches, the independence of the grammatical description of modern languages from Latin grammar, as well as the codification and standardisation of grammatical terminology.

    Keywords:

    grammatical terminology, lexicography, grammar books, history of linguistics, branches of grammar

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    Decyk-Zięba, W. (2024). Old grammatical nomenclatures as a source of grammatical knowledge. Poradnik Językowy, 809(10), 94–114. Retrieved from https://journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/1258

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