The research group of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University is implementing the project “Thematic dictionary of Arkhangelsk dialects with electronic support” supported by the Russian Science ...Foundation. The project aims to publish three issues of the dictionary, which will include the vocabulary reflecting the traditional world picture of the Arkhangelsk peasant: the first issue contains the vocabulary related to the names of clothes, shoes, hats; the second issue contains the names of residential and non-residential buildings; the third issue contains the vocabulary naming the food and drinks of the Arkhangelsk inhabitant. The second task of the project is to create an electronic dialect corpus devoted to the Arkhangelsk dialects, which is currently not available in universities of the North-West region. The article presents the experience of the project, which is at the intersection of dialectology, ethnography, cultural studies and corpus linguistics. The results of this research and the electronic database can be used in dialectological, folklore and ethnographic expeditions, in teaching Russian literature at universities and schools, in organization of local history work, in educational projects aimed at promoting northern spiritual culture, in preparation of cultural and scientific events devoted to the language and culture of the Russian North.
•Overview of scholarly approaches to traditional English dialect features.•EDD Online allowing for quantification of dialect features.•Research on English dialect features has generally been ...selective.•Joseph Wright’s EDD still the best source on Late Modern English dialects.•The hierarchy of types of dialect features, with a focus on pragmatic features.
Scholars have traditionally described dialects in a selective way by identifying individual, supposedly characteristic, features in a certain area. However, modern dialectology ambitiously claims to depict dialectal areas holistically by simultaneously attributing a large number of important features to geographical space and measuring the difference between dialectal areas. In the face of this quantifying challenge, which some scholars refer to as ‘dialectometry,’ the question of how these features can be defined and found has arisen within the last few decades. This overview article presents a detailed state of the art, drawing on traditional dialectology as well as variationist and recent ‘dialectometrical’ approaches. The question of dialect feature retrieval is answered with the help of the English Dialect Dictionary Online, which is based on Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905) and has been generally accessible since 2019. The paper is an empirical demonstration of how dialectology could benefit from a new tool and from resultant methods of analysis.
The article examines the specifics of the preparation of dialect dictionaries – the goal and purpose, the principles of material selection and presentation. The research carried out shows that a ...comprehensive dialect dictionary must present the totality of words used in a dialect and reflect the most important distinguishing features of the dialect – phonetic, accentual, morphological, syntactic, semantic and stylistic fields of data. Therefore, when collecting material for a future dictionary, it is necessary to take into account three important things: 1) method of data collection, 2) themes of oral and written texts, 3) principles of compiling a database.Properly selected illustrative sentences of a comprehensive dialectal dictionary are meant to reveal the so-called microstructure of a dictionary entry, and show a broader structure of the concepts researched than demonstrated in the lexicographic definition of words.A dialect dictionary is a cultural and historical phenomenon that records the level and peculiarities of the knowledge of the world of an ethnic group at a certain period of time. Texts reveals people’s ethnic values, their attitudes towards social and religious relationships, everyday phenomena, etc. Therefore, a comprehensive dialect dictionary is to be considered as a multi-layered text of ethnic knowledge, revealing the heritage of material and spiritual culture passed down from generation to generation by a particular ethnic group. A dictionary like this regulates the most important areas of man’s life: establishes the rules of behaviour and etiquette, describes customs, provides knowledge about folk remedies and economic activities, explains world phenomena, provides fragments of mythical worldviews and so forth.
Potreba po večji prisotnosti narečnih vsebin na spletu in njihovi interaktivni multimedijski predstavitvi, predvsem strokovno zasnovanih dialektoloških virov in orodij, je spodbudila ...interdisciplinarno sodelovanje različnih fakultet Univerze v Ljubljani, zlasti Filozofske fakultete (FF) in Fakultete za računalništvo in informatiko (FRI), ki je v letih 2017 in 2018 obrodilo sadove v obliki treh prostodostopnih in odprtokodnih spletnih aplikacij o slovenskih narečjih – to so Slovenski narečni atlas (SNA, 2017), Interaktivna karta slovenskih narečnih besedil (IKNB, 2018) in Slovar starega orodja v govoru Loškega Potoka (SSOLP, 2018). Članek v prvem delu prinaša splošen pregled slovenskih spletnih dialektoloških virov in orodij, v drugem delu pa podrobnejšo predstavitev funkcionalnosti navedenih treh aplikacij, ki so uporabnikom trenutno na voljo. V diskusijskem delu pregleda je izpostavljen del okoliščin nastanka obravnavanih aplikacij in z nastankom povezanih omejitev, nakazane pa so tudi možne rešitve, ki bi jih veljalo preudariti za zagotovitev njihovega dolgoročnega razvoja.
Bogata zbirka zvučnih zapisov, snimljenih većinom 2012. i 2013. ljeta po hrvatski seli Gradišća i susjedske zapadne Ugarske bila je poticaj projektu Gradišćanskohrvatski govori. Ozvučena knjiga s ...naslovom Po našu1 je zasada drugi svezak toga projekta. Ona je i dala glavni naslov projektu. Knjiga Po našu i pripadajući joj CD-ROM sadržava 51 zvučni zapis i odgovarajuće tekstne ispise. Svi ispisi zvučnih snimak organskih govorov zastupljeni su u dvi obliki, u dijalektološkom obliku kot „stručni zapis” i u jednostavnijem obliku kot „jednostavni zapis”, ki je prez oznakov naglaska i nekih drugih osebin izgovora, spomenutih u stručnom zapisu. Ispisom je dodan tumač manje poznatih riči i opis jezičnih osebin. Za četvrti svezak se predvidja proširen rječnik i pregled gradišćanskohrvatskih govorov.
Saja-aastase ajalooga „Eesti murrete sõnaraamat" on jõudnud poole peale. Artiklis käsitletakse selle saamislugu idee väljaütlemisest kuni käesoleva ajani. Vaadeldakse murdesõnaraamatu töös esinenud ...etappe ja Emakeele Seltsi rolli selles. Peatutakse sõnaraamatu tarbeks materjali kogumisel ja seadmisel, koostamispõhimõtete väljatöötamisel ning publitseerimisega seotud probleemidel. Kirjeldatakse sõnaraamatu praegust seisu ja selle kasutusvõimalusi.
This paper revisits the issue of the opaque interrelationship between the
(
) and the
(
). While work on
, the online version, has been in progress since 2000, the
was digitised in three phases ...between 2006 and 2019.
, with its sophisticated interface, was launched in April 2019. This paper ventures to question the
’s policy of providing or omitting source evidence for some of its data. After a survey of the unequal aims and structures of the two dictionaries from their beginnings down to the end of
(1989), the focus of the paper is on their relationship with regard to the two online versions, first as described by recent
editors, and then by examining the interfaces. A quantitative analysis of the lexical variants attributed to Worcestershire in the two dictionaries is used as a test case to show that
has borrowed more data from
(
) than the
entries attest and the ranking-list of sources misleadingly suggests. The paper critically analyses the
’s practice of providing source evidence only for quotations, but generally not for (dialectal) variants.
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