Computers and the old spanish dictionary

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the Old Spanish Dictionary. The use of computers for the purpose of facilitating the work of compiling the Wisconsin Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language is still, relatively speaking, in its cradle years. Yet, the Old Spanish lexicographical effort at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the parent organization under which that effort has been carried forth can hardly be classified as infants. The Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language is a vast citational lexicon, illustrating Old Spanish word usage through selected representative citations of medieval Spanish vocabulary in all its forms and functions as attested to in some 250 chosen manuscripts and incunabula produced between the years 900 and 1500.