The role of “portraits of words” card index in the compiling of new generation dictionaries Cover Image

Роль картотеки «портретів слів» в укладанні словників нового покоління
The role of “portraits of words” card index in the compiling of new generation dictionaries

Author(s): Yevheniia Karpilovs’ka
Subject(s): Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Philology
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: language dynamics; lexicon; innovation; “portraits of words” card index; corpus; new generation dictionary;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the concept of “portraits of words” card index as a necessary tool of the analysis of language changes for the compiling of dictionaries of new generation. Such card index contains information not only about the use of words in the texts of various functional styles, time, subject and purpose, but also about their systemic characteristics: paradigmatic, syntagmatic and epidigmatic (derivational and associative). The information about a word gathered in the card index of this type serves as guidelines for its verification in the corpus as well as in the various text databases, including online resources. It allows to check the use of new words, their spelling variations, development of their semantics, the course of their competition with other nominations of the same realities, processes or attributes in the texts. A “portraits of words” card index, as juxtaposed with the corpus and texts, signals the need to supplement the corpus with certain types of texts, as well as the need to change the annotation of its texts. This enables the preparation of verified materials for the compiling of new generation dictionaries.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 93-109
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Ukrainian