On Some Grammatical Principles in the Creation of the Bulgarian Dialectal Culinary Dictionary

The Bulgarian Dialectal Culinary Dictionary (BDCD) is a miniature model of the Bulgarian Dialectal Dictionary, designed to present the lexical richness of dialects across the entire linguistic continuum. It is both a micro- and macrosystemic resource, reflecting dialectal variety in its entirety, while encompassing the lexical diversity of dialects throughout the Bulgarian linguistic territory. The BDCD is organised using a classical alphabetical nesting structure. Headwords are aligned with the standard orthographic norm, with accents marked consistently. Citation forms are followed by a grammatical qualifier. Lexemes that exhibit gender variation are represented as separate entries. Verbs are listed in aspectual pairs whenever both forms are attested, while defective verbs appear as either imperfective or perfective, without resorting to undocumented aspectual forms. Culinary adjectives are described as separate entries. Their citation forms are given in the masculine singular, except for a few lexemes whose masculine form cannot be determined precisely across dialects; these are presented in the attested form. Adjectives that appear in fixed expressions related to the thematic scope of the dictionary are also included as separate entries.