The thesis of this reply to Piotr Żmigrodzki’s pessimistic diagnosis (published in the previous issue of „LingVaria”) of Polish linguistics from the perspective of modern lexicography is that the diagnosis from the perspective of linguistic engineering must be equally pessimistic – in fact, even more so. We argue that syntax and – to some extent – semantics are developed in Poland in isolation from developments outside Poland and the resulting analyses too often do not meet the usual criteria of preciseness and formal rigour. We end with an optimistic note showing that fruitful cooperation between computational and theoretical linguists is possible – even if rare – in Poland.
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Currently the head of the Great PAN Dictionary of Polish, the author presents his observations on past and present difficulties of lexicographical work. In his view, lexicography is an activity that both uses and publicizes the achievements of scientific linguistics, and therefore, its development is tightly bound to the current state of research on contemporary language. The progress of these studies in Poland is currently not satisfactory; training of young academics and future lexicographers is also inadequate. These issues should become the subject of a general discussion for the entire millieu of Polish linguists, so that scientific and lexicographical work on Polish can advance judiciously in the future.
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