NOMINATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GENDER IN POLISH GRAMMAR BOOKS AND DICTIONARIES IN XVI — 1ST HALF OF XX C.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to fi nd out the features of terminological nomination of names in grammatical category of gender in grammar books and dictionaries of Middle and New Polish periods (XVI-fi rst half of the XX century). The object is a linguistic terminology of Polish. The subject is special tokens to indicate grammatical category of gender recorded in grammar books and dictionaries of Middle and New Polish periods. The separation of productive ways of nomination (semantic, syntactic, compounding) taking into consideration the intra- and extra-linguistic factors of the formation of linguistic terminology was the result of our research. It was used descriptive and comparative methods, component and morphemic-derivational analysis in our research. Conclusion: three genders which demonstrated borrowings and calqued terms in their nominations were emphasised like in the ancient linguistic tradition. Codification of specific terms, which were digested in modern terminology, happens with the release of works by O. Kopczyński. Number of genders increases due to the formation of grammatical category of personality that had led to emerge of male-personnel and material genders. It can be found a considerable number of tokens for the nomination of grammatical category of gender inconnection with the deepening of knowledge, need to allocate personality and separated grammatical category of animated / inanimated in modern linguistics.