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Külli Habicht, Valve-Liivi Kingisepp, Külli Prillop. Dictionary of First Occurrences – a New Type of Dictionary in Estonian Lexicography |
2006, nr. 5 |
The workgroup of Old Literary Estonian at the
Estonian Chair of the University of Tartu is working on a dictionary
of first occurrences (DFO) to provide a most exhaustive survey
of the gradual accumulation of Estonian literary vocabulary over
the past 500 years, showing by whom, when and in what text this
or that word of modern standard Estonian was first used. The project
would hardly have been feasible without modern information technology
and corpora enabling reliable fixation of words. In a lemmatized
exhaustive corpus the researcher can find out exactly when a word
made its first appearance in writing. The resulting information
is necessary for both lexical and cultural history. The article
points out the differences between the DFO, the Dictionary of
Old Literary Estonian and an etymological dictionary. An analogous
dictionary for Finnish is also described and some specific problems
concerning the identification of first occurrences in Old Estonian
texts are discussed. Added is a sample from the initial part of
the dictionary.
Keywords: lexicography, first occurrences,
Old Estonian, lexical history.
Külli Habicht (b. 1964), PhD, University
of Tartu, Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics,
Chair of Estonian
kulli.habicht@ut.ee
Valve-Liivi Kingisepp (b. 1935), PhD, University
of Tartu
valve@neti.ee
Külli Prillop (b. 1974), MA, University
of Tartu, Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics,
Chair of Estonian
kulli.prillop@ut.ee
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