| Abstract [eng] |
The doctoral thesis „The Lexicographical Method of the Dictionary of Jacob Brodowski“ focuses on the manuscript German-Lithuanian dictionary Lexicon Germanico=Lithvanicvm et Lithvanico=Germanicvm (before 1744, further on – B). Although the manuscript has survived till the present day incomplete, it is considered to be the largest German-Lithuanian dictionary throughout the 18th century. The aim of the thesis is to examine and describe the lexicographical method of Brodovskis’ dictionary which is understood as the whole of means and techniques of selection of linguistic material as well as its presentation in the dictionary. The lexicographical method also covers an analysis of sources of the dictionary. The thesis starts with an introduction, two overviews on the history of the survival of the manuscript and on some special circumstances of author‘s life. The fourth and fifth parts analyse the macrostructure and microstructure of the dictionary. They present a detailed description of the dictionary contents, show its unique characteristics and thoroughly analyse lexicographical information and its presentation forms in B. The sixth part of the thesis focuses on dictionary sources. The most important lexicographical sources of B are discussed in three separate sections: a revised edition of Konrad Agricola‘s concordance to the Bible Concordantiae Bibliorum, emendatae ac ferè novae […] (1674), the German-Latin dictionary Clavis Linguae Latinae by Johann Jacob Dentzler (the edition of 1709), so far unknown as a source of B, and the anonymous manuscript German-Lithuanian dictionary Clavis Germanico-Lithvana used in the last stage of the compiling of B. The other sections of the sixth part analyse non-lexicographic works and hypothetical dictionaries that could have served as sources for B. |
