The aim of the article is to elaborate on the principles of the online edition of The Normative Dictionary of the Polish Place Names from the area of Lithuania. This is a normative dictionary. It ...contains Polish equivalents of contemporary Lithuanian place names from the area of Lithuania, their declination, adjectives and names of residents. The dictionary contains names of districts, towns and villages, counting over 20 residents from Vilnius, Šalčininkai, Trakai, Švenčionys and Širvintos regions. The dictionary includes names from the Vilnius area inhabited by numerous Polish minority, and selected names from different parts of Lithuania, important in terms of history, culture and society (e.g. from the area of Lauda and the vicinity of Kaunas). The article outlines the structure of the dictionary, looks into difficulties encountered in its development and supplements this study with a brief description of the Dictionary and of the present state of work on it.
Brandom (
1994
) made inferentialism an intensely debated idea in the philosophy of language in the last three decades. Inferentialism is a view that associates the meaning of linguistic expression ...with the role said expression plays in inferences. It seems rather uncontroversial that the correct theory of meaning should distinguish between linguistic correctness and factual correctness. For instance, speaker S can be wrong in saying 'I have arthritis' in two distinct ways: (i) S fails to apply a word correctly to make a true statement due to having made a factual error, and (ii) S uses an expression incorrectly because they are wrong about its meaning. In this paper, I show that properly understood normative inferentialism can make room for such a distinction. I propose that linguistic correctness is a structural issue: linguistic mistakes stem from the improper or insufficient acquisition of an inferential role. Factual correctness, on the other hand, is a one-off issue of the correct application of inferential rules to a particular situation. I argue that, by tying the issue of correctness to the game of giving and asking for reasons, inferentialism can establish a reliable method for distinguishing between two types of correctness (and mistakes).
This chapter is inspired by the integrational linguistic approach set forth in Harris, and draws upon the work of sociolinguists James Milroy, Lesley Milroy, and Deborah Cameron. It is integrationist ...in its commitment to the assumption that current grammatical description, both in form and intent, owes a great deal to the general cultural background, the historical contexts, intellectual issues, and philosophical discourses of the English languages. Even the most basic grammatical terms are set within an intellectual tradition, and have political implications: There is no such thing as a value‐free description. This approach speaks to the experiences of those using, encountering, and analyzing world Englishes and varieties of English. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, historical linguistics and dialectology offered a basis for descriptive grammar tied to a social and historical conception of linguistic correctness. Large‐scale descriptive grammars reflect the concerns of language learners, the publishing industry, and language specialists.
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