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This article explores the treatment of Australian slang within the context of lexicography, in particular focusing on the way in which the Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins (first edition, 1988, second edition, 2016, online edition forthcoming) has dealt with slang. It places this treatment within the broader context of debates and discussions around Australian slang, as well as considering the treatment of slang by other English-language dictionaries, primarily those based on historical principles. It explains the decisions made around the treatment of slang and colloquial language in the Australian National Dictionary. These decisions were as much informed by the ways in which Australian slang has been constructed and shaped by cultural discourses, myths, and perceptions as by any objective categorization of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides brief biographies of the compilers of the first printed dictionaries of the Komi language, Andrey Andreevich Tsember and Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shakhov. Their goals and procedures in compiling the dictionaries, their materials, methods of presentation, and the types of defining word meanings are analyzed. In general, both dictionaries, the RussianâKomi-Zyrian dictionary by Andrey Tsember (1910) and the concise Komi-Russian dictionary by Nikolay Shakhov (1924) played a great role in the development of Komi linguistics, culture, education and national consciousness of the Komi at the beginning of the 20th century.

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The objective of this paper is to present an unknown text in the fields of philology and the history of science: the Diccionario de medicina peruana (Dictionary of Peruvian Medicine), by Hermilio Valdizán (1923-1961). To this end, we analyze the macrostructure, microstructure and iconostructure of the nine volumes that constitute this monumental contribution to the historical, anthropological and ethnographic studies of the pre-Hispanic and colonial culture of Peru, to which Valdizán dedicated more than two decades of tireless documentary and compilation work. We offer a study of the lexical units included in this lexicographical repertoire, as well as the areas of specialization to which the word list compiled by Valdizán belongs, the lexicographical sources that he used for the preparation of his work and the presence of the indigenous element. This will be accompanied by a review of the biobibliographical, encyclopedic and linguistic contributions preserved in this dictionary, which is revealed as a fundamental piece to understand and (re)construct the medical history of Peru. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to analyze the impact of Alejo Venegas del Busto’s Breve declaración de las sentencias y vocablos obscuros in Covarrubias’ Thesaurus, as well as in different works of later centuries, where Venegas is considered as an etymological authority. This glossary is an annex to the work of Erasmist spirit the Agonía del tránsito de la muerte (1543) which, despite not having a dictionary approach, has contributed significantly to lexicographical praxis. A detailed search has been made of the accredited voices in Venegas’ glossary to know which of them have had the greatest influence on the work of Covarrubias. To complete the analysis, matching samples are provided in representative lexicographical works. The purpose is to deepen the knowledge of Venegas’ work to determine what his contribution to Covarrubias’ work was, as well as its influence on other lexicographic repertoires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a lexicographical and terminological study of the various names that epilepsy disease has received throughout the history of the Spanish language. Among other particularities, we analyse the etymology and lexicogenetic mechanisms, diachronic and diaphasic restrictions, as well as the documentation for more than thirty lexical units consigned in the medical terminological dictionaries of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Occupational terms and societal roles in early Estonian lexicography". This article explores findings from six German-Estonian and Estonian-German dictionaries compiled during the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers all the main lexicographical sources from that period, from Heinrich Stahl’s “Vocabula” (1637) to August Wilhelm Hupel’s “Wörterbuch” (1780), with the exception of two ­17th-century authors, Clare and Svenske. The primary aim of this overview is to examine professional titles that were extensively documented in these historical dictionaries. In addition, the article delves into terms describing incidental activities. Thirdly, the discussion also includes societal roles. Within the category of core occupational terms, prominent examples include “doctor” (arst), “baker” (pagar), “miller” (mölder), “carpenter” (puusepp) and “teacher” (õpetaja) vs “student” (õppija): all of these words remain in common usage in modern Estonian. These dictionaries also include approximately twenty different descriptions of the concept “witch” (nõid). Incidental activity descriptions include various terms for imposters, robbers and killers, along with words like “guarantor” (käemees) and “witness” (tunnistaja), as well as numerous others that play an important role in this lexical constellation. Key examples of the third category – societal roles – include terms such as “king” (kuningas), “landlord” (mõisnik) and “peasant” (talupoeg). Within this category, several sub-groups can be identified, e.g. governance (taatholder ‘vicegerent’), societal hierarchy (isetalumees ‘master of a farm household’), qualitative aspects of individuals or groups (koeraselts ‘ungodly rabble’), or their level of education (raamatumees ‘a man who can read’). Many words in this semantic group have changed in meaning or vanished from the language over the centuries due to societal changes. Nevertheless, these old lexicographical sources help us shed light on the development of the Estonian language and provide insight into cultural aspects that have evolved over time.

The paper examines whether the authors of the very first Polish Sign Language dictionary, Słownik mimiczny dla głuchoniemych i osób z nimi styczność mających 'A gestural dictionary for deaf and dumb and persons who have contact with them', published in 1879, may have been influenced by any of the spoken Polish monolingual dictionaries available at that time. As there is no historical documentation about the circumstances in which Słownik mimiczny was compiled, the inquiry necessarily relies exclusively on internal evidence: comparison of headword spelling, alphabetical ordering, direction of cross-references and the content of sample entries. The results indicate that such influence, if any, was only minor, and that the lexicographic strategies applied in Słownik mimiczny most likely resulted from the authors' knowledge of Polish Sign Language and teaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores findings from six German-Estonian and Estonian-German dictionaries compiled during the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers all the main lexicographical sources from that period, from Heinrich Stahl's "Vocabula" (1637) to August Wilhelm Hupel's "Wörterbuch" (1780), with the exception of two 17th-century authors, Clare and Svenske. The primary aim of this overview is to examine professional titles that were extensively documented in these historical dictionaries. In addition, the article delves into terms describing incidental activities. Thirdly, the discussion also includes societal roles. Within the category of core occupational terms, prominent examples include "doctor" (arst), "baker" (pagar), "miller" (mölder), "carpenter" (puusepp) and "teacher" (õpetaja) vs "student" (õppija): all of these words remain in common usage in modern Estonian. These dictionaries also include approximately twenty different descriptions of the concept "witch" (nõid). Incidental activity descriptions include various terms for imposters, robbers and killers, along with words like "guarantor" (käemees) and "witness" (tunnistaja), as well as numerous others that play an important role in this lexical constellation. Key examples of the third category -- societal roles -- include terms such as "king" (kuningas), "landlord" (mõisnik) and "peasant" (talupoeg). Within this category, several sub-groups can be identified, e.g. governance (taatholder 'vicegerent'), societal hierarchy (isetalumees 'master of a farm household'), qualitative aspects of individuals or groups (koeraselts 'ungodly rabble'), or their level of education (raamatumees 'a man who can read'). Many words in this semantic group have changed in meaning or vanished from the language over the centuries due to societal changes. Nevertheless, these old lexicographical sources help us shed light on the development of the Estonian language and provide insight into cultural aspects that have evolved over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Starting from the applications of quantitative linguistics to Dante’s Commedia made in the mid-1960s, the article reviews the lexicographic activities of Tullio De Mauro. Considering the breadth and articulation of the scholar’s activities, the focus is concentrated on early Italian language and on his theories and researches that have crossed the resources of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, and in particular the Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to demonstrate the usefulness of Erazm Rykaczewski's Słownik języka polskiego for the research on the regional diversity of Polish. The comparison of the register of 19th-century Modern Polish regionalisms, which I compiled, with the provincialisms recorded in SR showed that, although the dictionary only included 176 of the analysed units, it also collected 27 new units, not recorded at all or not classified as elements of regional Polish in any of the dictionary publications I analysed. Hence, the results prove that SR is an interesting material base for lexicological research on regional Polish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is dedicated to the early adaptation and development of the medical and pharmaceutical measurements system in traditional Mongolian medicine as shown in the example of the treatise “Khan Treasury” – about methods of treatment”. This work is a little-known translation into the classic Mongolian language of one of the oldest Tibetan medical treatises “GyalpoKorzo”, that belongs to the medical tradition of the Sakyapa school (11th century). The purpose of this study is to reveal the traditional medicine features of Mongolian peoples’ metric system on the example of the said work. The authors use a comparative historical method and historical-lexical analysis. The medical metric terminology available in the Mongolian text of the “Khan Treasury” was identified and systematized, the origin of the measurement units used in it, was determined. The scientific novelty is that new data have been obtained on the adaptation by Mongolians of the complex system of knowledge accumulated in traditional medical systems. It is shown that the studied lexical layer reflects economic and living conditions of nomads, features of cultural ties in East and Central Asia. The example of measurement terminology shows that Mongolians, while adapting and mastering Buddhist knowledge, apart from directly borrowing new categories and concepts, tried to rethink them in the realities of their own culture. Text and analytical materials of medical treatise “Khan Treasury” – about methods of treatment” are housed in the diachronic corpus of the old Mongolian language and will serve as the basis for the creation of a machine translation system based on artificial intelligence technologies (“deep learning”).

This article examines the changing forms of headwords in the partial differentiation of encyclopedias away from dictionaries from the late seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. In the past, this differentiation has mostly been studied as a process of reducing lexical content in encyclopedias and reducing encyclopedic content in dictionaries, but it also manifested itself in the grammatical forms of allowable headwords. Specifically, proto-encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries tended to accept verbs and adjectives as headwords, whereas many general encyclopedias from the mid-nineteenth century onward virtually eliminated any headwords except nouns. Here I point to three causes for this development in encyclopedias' headwords: an influx of historical material as general encyclopedias acquired their modern scope, a de-emphasis on terminology and technolects in favor of coverage of concepts, and a rising concern for standardization and making it easier for readers to find what they wanted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Charles Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language is a work of great importance for the history of lexicography, but the dates of its first serial publication from 1818 onwards among the 59 instalments of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana appear never to have been ascertained. They are worked out here, together with the alphabetical ranges of many instalments, from announcements in contemporary periodicals such as the Athenaeum , the Morning Chronicle , and The Times , and are followed by extracts from the first reviews of the dictionary in the same periodicals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes Joaquín García Icazbalceta's Vocabulary of Mexicanisms, published in 1905, and its importance in compiling words and expressions specific to Mexico. García Icazbalceta searched for provincialisms in novels and popular poetry, as well as in dictionaries and encyclopedias. His lexicographic project aimed to provide evidence of the history and usage of Mexican lexicon. The Vocabulary is considered a historical document and a source for studying the use of words in Mexico. Additionally, the sources used by the author to compile these words and expressions are mentioned. García Icazbalceta's Vocabulary of Mexicanisms is a lexicographic and historiographic work that showcases the diversity and persistence of voices in Mexico and America. The article also mentions the grammatical categories and usage markers used in the dictionary, as well as the definitions and usage examples. The vocabulary offers a valuable insight into the dissemination of Spanish and indigenous words in America and is an essential document for studying the history of Americanisms. [Extracted from the article]

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This article examines the different meanings carried by the term poraka in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay. By crossing historical sources and contemporary ethnological works, we show that it designates both the hunting and the sharing of game. If the analysis of the Jesuit dictionaries shows that the missionaries try to privilege the technical dimension of the term, namely the supply of halieutic and cynegetic resources, an unpublished monolingual Guarani manuscript produced in the missions in the 18th-century shows that in daily language it designates the social dimension, the sharing of the game. In addition, the manuscript highlights the persisting tension, a century after the foundation of the missions, between the traditional Guaraní kinship system, and the Christian one, based on the nuclear family. The transformations of the meaning of the term poraka could thus reflect an effort by the Jesuits to modify the practices of sharing, reoriented towards the nuclear family. The article therefore proposes to examine kinship in the reductions through the sharing of game, an approach widely used in ethnology but unprecedented in the study of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay.

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The paper offers an overview of the digital projects in progress at the Cnr Institute Opera del vocabolario italiano in Florence, specialized in historical lexicography and in the development of software for lexicography, and now active in the European infrastructures for humanistic research.

Lexicographers and paremiologists have been struggling with the American proverbial phrase “to see the elephant” since the 1840s, attempting to establish its history and elucidate its meanings. Often those attempts have resulted in erroneous information and fanciful conclusions. At least two instances of the expression can be identified from early-modern England.

This article presents a lexicographic study of Cuban slavery vocabulary based on the analysis of Esteban Pichardo's Provincial Dictionary. The study aims to identify words related to slavery and analyze their "Cuban-ness" through their treatment in general dictionaries. Lexicographic visibility and the reception of the diatopic mark are examined in order to approach the study of Cuban slavery vocabulary and contribute to the history of Spanish lexicography. [Extracted from the article]

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The aim of this paper is to present the utility of the Gorazd: An Old Church Digital Hub for scholars working with Old Romanian and Slavonic texts written on the territory of today' s Romania. The Gorazd Project was realized during the years 2016-2020 and it includes an Old Church Slavonic Card Index and three Old Church Slavonic lexical databases, among which the largest one is represented by the digitized and updated version of the monumental Lexicon linguæ palæoslovenicæ (vol. I-IV, 1958-1997) composed by the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences. As the Gorazd Project uses English as meta-language, its application is not limited to narrowly specialized Slavic philologists, but it is also open for scholars of neighbouring fields. The dictionaries within the Gorazd Digital Hub can serve as a reference tool not just for the oldest attested Slavonic vocabulary and its semantics, but also for the biblical concordance of the Slavonic oldest Bible redaction and the oldest attested Old Church Slavonic morphological forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The publication of the Dictionnaire universel of Furetière in 1690 ushered in the age of the encyclopaedic dictionary. This was a relatively short-lived phenomenon of little more than a hundred years, but one which pathed the way to modern encyclopaedias. Furetière having died in 1688, his successor was Basnage de Beauval, a protestant exile based in the United Provinces of the Netherlands. It was Basnage who in the new 1701 edition transformed the dictionary by enlarging it considerably to a more genuine encyclopaedic coverage and calling on specialists to rewrite key sections, notably on the natural sciences. The simile of the hourglass is a means to show how the dictionary mediated knowledge from a vast array of sources and made the data available to contemporary and current day users. This paper demonstrates the hourglass effect through the lexicographical and learned sources that Basnage and his major compiler of scientific data, Regis of Amsterdam, brought into service. It looks at how Regis used numerous botanical sources in writing entries on Brazilian flora. Finally, we examine the influence of the work on the phenomenon of the universal dictionary and the development of the encyclopaedia.

At the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), DiaMaNT, a diachronic semantic computational lexicon of Dutch, is being developed, based on the scholarly historical dictionaries of Dutch. The main purpose of this lexicon is to enhance text accessibility and foster research in the development of concepts. This article explores the feasibility of enriching DiaMaNT with an existing semantic classification by linking a subset of the vocabulary of the Dictionary of Old Dutch to A Thesaurus of Old English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws on the Historical Thesaurus of English and related resources, the Mapping Metaphor project and the semantically tagged Hansard Corpus of British Parliamentary Speeches, to consider how the Irish have been imagined and named in Anglophone culture, and how ‘Irishness’, alongside the attributes of other ‘races and nations’, in the terminology of the Mapping Metaphor project, has developed metaphorically over time, with a focus on the association between Irishness and anger and foolishness. The article concludes by illustrating how the names and metaphors of the Irish are contested discursively in a corpus of British Parliamentary speeches. The article serves as a practical introduction to the Historical Thesaurus of English and the Hansard Corpus and how they may be used, in conjunction with related online resources, to explore aspects of English language, discourse and culture.

From the second half of the 19th century, guides and manuals for travelers in any corner of Spain will begin to proliferate. The consolidation of the bourgeoisie and the improvement of transport make possible this new mode of idle and recreational travel that will end up being one of the main sources of communication and wealth throughout the world (Larrinaga, 2002). The earliest modern works recounting travel, advising accommodation, describing landscapes, and detailing itineraries through monumental cities were written in that century. But, as Calvi (2012: 1) points out, "tourism is made with words" and, in effect, the new genre will require new modes of expression that will produce a specific vocabulary and that, little by little, will be incorporated into lexicographical repertoires. The objective of this work is to carry out an approach to the origins of the conformation of the specific lexicon of leisure travel in Spanish, define the semantic fields, identify the first occurrences, check with what vitality they arose, when they were incorporated into the lexicographic repertoires and What this new practice ultimately contributed to the lexical flow of Spanish in the 19th century. For this, seven guides and travel books written by Spanish authors, have been used as a reference corpus where words such as excursion, hotel, railway, tourist, luggage, guide, etc. they appear used naturally. The presence of this lexicon is verified in contemporary lexicographic works --Academic and Non-Academic Dictionaries from the 19th century-- and the extent of its use in CORDE is checked. The selection and organization of the lexicon is carried out based on the fields established in the Dictionaries of Alcaraz (2000) and Aragón (2009). This shows the vitality with which the new activity and the new vocabulary took root in society and in the Spanish language of the second half of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents fundamental achievements of the 18th century Polish lexicography: Nowy dykcjonarz (New Dictionary) by M.A. Troc and Nowy wielki dykcjonarz (New Great Dictionary) by P. Danet and D. Kola, in the context of contemporary research needs (especially those pertaining to historical linguistics) as well as the challenges faced by Polish lexicography (historical lexicography in particular). The primary objective is the identification of lexis comprised in both dictionaries - the linguistic material is reliable and representative of the status and condition of the Polish language of the day. A more profound insight into lexical structure, the analysis of word meanings along with the examination of the frequency of words in particular lexico-semantic fields may be a major contribution to the knowledge of the Polish lexis of mid 18th century and a promising scientific springboard for further research into the development of lexical system of the epoch that still remains a blank spot in Polish lexicology. The two works are also interesting for their cultural value. The units recorded in both lexicons not only show the richness of Polish vocabulary, but they also shed light on the Polish culture. Behind these words are two worlds - the material and the mental/spiritual, the latter hidden beneath the former. The aforementioned challenges for historical lexicography include the need for digitization of the contents of the dictionaries under study. Although they have already been digitized, the present version is far from being easy to use, with the Polish material (especially that in Danet-Kola's lexicon) still remaining inaccessible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dentro del estudio de la vestimenta, uno de los campos léxicos más interesantes es el del léxico relativo a los adornos y las guarniciones. Partiendo de los documentos notariales recopilados por el Corpus Léxico de Inventarios (CorLexIn), este estudio pretende ofrecer una descripción y análisis lexicográficos de diversos ítems léxicos concretos alusivos a elementos textiles de adorno que podrían englobarse bajo hiperónimos como flecos, bordados, cintas o pasamanerías. Within the study of clothing, one of the most interesting fields could be vocabulary referred to decorations and trimmings. Based on the notarial records gathered by the Corpus Léxico de Inventarios (CorLexIn), this study aims to offer a lexicographical description and analysis of some specific lexical items that refer to textile adornment elements that could be included under hyperonyms such as tassels, embroideries, ribbons or trimmings.

This paper describes the resources and software procedures used or developed in a major enabling step towards the revision of the scholarly reference work A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAE, Silva et al. 1996), namely the semi-automatic generation of a digitally-sourced lexical database on which new and updated dictionary entries will be based; as well as the addition, in parallel, of a new corpus of South African English (SAE) to the project. Drawing on online data sources and an extensive list of known SAE word forms, we have developed a software toolchain to gather, encode, annotate and collate textual sources, producing: (i) a 3.1-billion part-of-speech-annotated corpus of South African English; (ii) a lexical database of illustrative quotations for over 20,000 known SAE word forms, available for selection at the entry-revision stage; and (iii) a list of potential new variant spellings and headword inclusion candidates. These steps replace, where recent electronic sources are concerned, the mechanical aspects of quotation gathering, normally undertaken manually through a reading programme requiring years of teamwork to acquire sufficient coverage (cf. Hicks 2010).

The Name Māra in the 16–17th century Latvian texts and in the „Historical Dictionary of Latvian”: Proper names and common nounsMarija and its Latvianized form Māra (including the diminutive Māriņa) is one of the most frequently observed proper names in the 16–17th century Latvian texts. This article analyzes the forms of this name found in the “Corpus of Early Latvian Texts” (Latviešu valodas seno tekstu korpuss), which were later included in three separate entries in the „Historical Dictionary of Latvian” (Latviešu valodas vēsturiskā vārdnīca; henceforth LVVV): (1) Marija, Mārija, (2) Mara, Māra, Maŗa, Māŗa, and (3) Mariņa, Māriņa. Since most of the 16–17th century Latvian texts are of religious nature, these words are mostly used in a Christian context, and their meaning is ‘[Saint] Mary’. An interesting exception is an example from a 17th century dictionary – the popular name Kāposta Māriņa of a church holiday, and the example of a song from the manuscript of Christoph Fürecker’s dictionary, which allow to add the words ‘Māra’ and ‘Māriņa’ to the respective entries.In Latvian, just like in many other languages, the name denoting Saint Mary is a rather widespread component of plant names – most probably because in the Catholic tradition the image of Saint Mary has long been associated with protection and healing. LVVV contains such entries as mārarutks, māŗarutka and mārapīne. However, these are not derived from a personal name, but from phonologically similar first components of German compound words. These hybrid words, partial German borrowings, at some points in the history of written Latvian were interpreted as related to Mārja / Māŗa / Māra, as a result of folk etymology, and used as collocations. In LVVV, these collocations do not have separate entries, but are included in the entry Mara, Māra, Maŗa, Māŗa. However, the 17th century compounds mārarutks, māŗarutka analyzed in this article are not really a case of folk etymology and are thus not related to a personal name, while the compound mārapīne with its variants has a more tenacious semantic link with the respective name.

The article investigates the manuscript of a 17th-century Russian-German phrasebook, a previously unknown copy of the so-called Trondheim phrasebook. The authors consider transmission and text history and discuss problems in connection with the comparison of the two known copies, including an analysis of their individual linguistic features. The study points to the east Baltic region as the most likely place for the provenience and/or copying of the phrasebook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Digitization of dictionaries, which were founded in predigital times, face the challenge of modern technics. In the case of the Early New High German dictionary this challenge has proved to be more a chance than a curse. This article demonstrates how the textual structure of the (old) dictionary is transformed in the (new) digital language. It has shown that the new technics produce an added value. This is of course only possible under the condition, that the conception of the dictionary and the formulation by the lexicographer has prepared an elaborated base of semantic informations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a series of addenda to Stanisław Stachowski's Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (1996). The data are taken from transcription texts prior to Meninski (1680) - comprising both lexicographical and documentary texts - and listed in chronological order, according to the pattern I have already followed in previous papers of mine intended to supplement Stachowski's other historical-lexicographical works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What are known as specialized or specialist dictionaries are much more than lists of words and their definitions with occasional comments on things such as synonymy and homonymy. That is to say, a particular specialist term may be associated with many other concepts, including quotations, different senses, etymological categories, semantic categories, superordinate and subordinate terms in the terminological hierarchy, spelling variants, and references to background sources discussing the exact meaning and application of the term. The various concepts, in turn, form networks of mutual links, which makes the structure of the background concepts demanding to model when designing a database structure for this type of dictionary. The Dictionary of medical vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 is a specialized historical dictionary that covers the vast medical lexicon of the centuries examined. It comprises over 12,000 terms, each of them associated with a host of background concepts. Compiling the dictionary took over 15 years. The process started with an analysis of hand-written manuscripts and early printed books from different sources and ended with the electronic dictionary described in the present paper. Over these years, the conceptual structure, database schema, and requirements for essential use cases were iteratively developed. In our paper, we introduce the conceptual structure and database schema modelled for implementing an electronic dictionary that involves different use cases such as term insertion and linking a term to related concepts. The achieved conceptual model, database structure, and use cases provide a general framework for reference-oriented specialized dictionaries, including ones with a historical orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article focuses on the historical-linguistics analysis of four lexical Arabisms attached to the lexical-semantic field of the textile industry of the Kingdom of Granada during the stage immediately after the Christian conquest (16th and 17th centuries): aceituní, almaizar, alquicel and anafaya. In order to do that, a corpus of municipal and administrative documents from the said territory have been elaborated (which corresponds to the current provinces of Málaga, Granada and Almería). The variety of Spanish developed in that territory during the said period is characterized by the maintenance, even incorporation, of lexical loanwords taken from Arabic language against the general tendency of loss which it is observed in other Spanish-speaking areas due to the particular historical, political and social context developed there. Specifically, the factor that stands as a key to the maintenance of this specific type of lexicon is due to the enormous prestige and fame achieved by the textile industry of Granada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]