Lexical Entries Research Articles

Preparation of Material for Compiling an English–Slovene Dictionary of Criminal Justice and Security Collocations

Abstract This article presents the preparation of material for compiling an English–Slovene dictionary of criminal justice and security collocations. It presents the process of collecting and preparing material; specifically, software selection, corpus preparation, collocation extraction, and translation into Slovene. These activities were performed by students at the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security as part of the course English Terminology. It defines the concepts of language for specific purposes (LSP) and presents the field and subfields of criminal justice and security, and gives an overview of the definitions of collocations. The article outlines the need to prepare a collocation dictionary by exploring the inclusion of collocations in dictionaries. The characteristics of possible dictionary entries are outlined based on material collected and prepared by the students. This is followed by the presentation of some examples of collocation entries from dictionaries.

Многозначные слова и их значения в карачаево-балкарском языке

The article focuses on the subject of polysemy in the Karachay-Balkar language. Through polyse-my, new concepts appear in a language without changing or with a slight change in the sound ex-pression of these concepts. The development of polysemy is based on the figurative meaning or one meaning of an existing word to a new concept through the associative connection of ideas similar to them. Therefore, an unconditional condition for the development of polysemy is the stability of the phonetic word, which in turn is determined by the concept it expresses. Polysemy should be recognized as an important method of expanding vocabulary, particularly the root word. The main obstacle to detect and define new meanings of words stems from the fact that a new meaning might emerge and disappear in a relatively short period, while other meanings emerge and firmly enter the language lexicon, preserving word frequency. However, all these changes are not always recorded in dictionary entries and this phenomenon in the modern language is one of the key problems and requires identifying ways to solve it.

Expressions of biblical origin in learners’ dictionaries of proverbs and phraseological units

The need to improve the lexicographic description of the phraseological units and proverbs of biblical ori[1]gin which are not always fully parameterised in learners’ dictionaries, determines the relevance of the research presented in this article. The study aims to justify the methods for expanding the historical and etymological parametric zone of dictionary entries representing proverbs and phraseological units traced back to the Bible. Moreover, another goal is to develop new models for describing this linguistically and culturally valuable material in learners’ dictionaries intended, first and foremost, for primary school learners. Parametric analysis of modern lexicographic publications enabled us to identify the specific features of presenting the cultural and historical background of phraseological units and proverbs of biblical origin to schoolchildren, as well as to outline ways of improving their historical and etymological commentary. We developed our own materials using the method of lexicographic modeling and the author techniques of etymological paraphrasing. Through historical and etymological analysis, the origin of phraseological units and proverbs selected for lexicographic description was specified. The results of the study supplemented the theoretical and methodological basis of learner’s lexicography, as well as substantiated the use of models for describing proverbs and phraseological units dating back to biblical texts in a discursive dictionary. For instance, to represent expressions that are culturally significant but rare in modern speech, we suggest using a model of a comprehensive linguo-cultural text written by the author-compiler. In addition, a model of a narrative text on the issues relevant to children is proposed for actively functioning proverbs and phraseological units. The paper concludes that the developed lexicographic description models foreground the spiritual and moral potential of proverbs and phraseological units of biblical origin. Moreover, working with dictionary materials enables the accomplishment of educational objectives. It is emphasised that the practical va[1]lue of the developed models for describing proverbs and phraseological units lies in the possibility of their use by teachers when preparing informative teaching materials on phraseology and paremiology for a Russian language lesson or an extracurricular event. As a research outlook, we plan to develop the concept of a learner’s phraseological dictionary for secondary school students with extensive use of the biblical text and various research assignments.

Cross-lingual dependency parsing for a language with a unique script

Abstract Syntactic parsing is one of the areas in Natural Language Processing. The development of large-scale multilingual language models has enabled cross-lingual parsing approaches, which allows us to develop parsers for languages that do not have treebanks available. However, these approaches rely on the assumption that languages share orthographic representations and lexical entries. In this article, we investigate methods for developing a dependency parser for Xibe, a low-resource language that is written in a unique script. We first investigate lexicalized monolingual dependency parsing experiments to examine the effectiveness of word, part-of-speech, and character embeddings as well as pre-trained language models. Results show that character embeddings can significantly improve performance, while pre-trained language models decrease performance since they do not recognize the Xibe script. We also train delexicalized monolingual models, which yield competitive results to the best lexicalized model. Since the monolingual models are trained on a very small training set, we also investigate lexicalized and delexicalized cross-lingual models. We use six closely related languages as source language, which cover a wide range of scripts. In this setting, the delexicalized models achieve higher performance than lexicalized models. A final experiment shows that we can increase performance of the cross-lingual model by combining source languages and selecting the most similar sentences to Xibe as training set. However, all cross-lingual parsing results are still considerably lower than the monolingual model. We attribute the low performance of cross-lingual methods to syntactic and annotation differences as well as to the impoverished input of Universal Dependency Part-of-Speech tags that the delexicalized model has access to.

ЗА НЯКОИ ОСНОВНИ ЛЕКСИКОГРАФСКИ ТЕРМИНИ

The study is the first attempt in Bulgarian linguistics to purposefully present and define basic lexicographic terms such as dictionary entry, headword, etc. with a view to an explanatory dictionary. It answers the question of how many headwords there are in the headwords area in the unconventional cases where the „input“ of the entry are several words of the same type that are interpreted together. One of the stated recommendations is to follow the theoretical postulate: one headword (simple or combined) unlocks one dictionary entry.

Sich vorstellen (‘imagine’) as a Fiction Verb and as a Verb of Thinking

AbstractI argue that sich vorstellen (‘imagine’) in German, similar to English imagine, has a use as a fiction verb and a use as a verb of thinking. I follow Vendler (Rev Métaphys Morale 84(2):161–173, 1979) in assuming that the fiction verbs like vorstellen can be used to report acts of subjective imagination (imagined inner experiences) and acts of objective imagination (imagined outer experiences). For sich vorstellen as a verb of thinking we have to distinguish between a use on which it introduces an activity and takes interrogative complements and DPs on a concealed question interpretation as arguments and a use on which it introduces an attitudinal state that can be characterized as betting on the truth of a proposition in a given subject matter. Given the differences in grammar and interpretation I argue that we have to distinguish four lexical entries for German sich vorstellen: imagine$$_{{\textsc {exp}}-{\textsc {sbj}}}$$ E X P - S B J , imagine$$_{{\textsc {exp}}{-}{\textsc {obj}}}$$ E X P - O B J , imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-act}}$$ P R O P - A C T , imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-state}}$$ P R O P - S T A T E . Having laid out all the necessary distinctions to account for the data, I discuss the prospects of reducing the number of lexical entries. I propose that imagine$$_{{\textsc {exp}}-{\textsc {sbj}}}$$ E X P - S B J and imagine$$_{{\textsc {exp}}{-}{\textsc {obj}}}$$ E X P - O B J could be reduced to imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-act}}$$ P R O P - A C T if we assume that all reports of experiential imagining can be reduced to reports of propositional imagining that combine the predicate imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-act}}$$ P R O P - A C T with a question of the kind ‘what would it be like?’, following an idea in D’Ambrosio and Stoljar (Synthese 199:12923–12944, 2021). Under this assumption only two lexical entries are needed: an entry for imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-act}}$$ P R O P - A C T , a rogative predicate that introduces activities, and imagine$$_{\textsc {prop-state}}$$ P R O P - S T A T E an attitude predicate that takes propositions as arguments and introduces an attitudinal state. The overall result is that the grammar and interpretation of the fiction verb sich vorstellen is much closer to verbs of thinking than one might imagine.

Wine tasting notes as formulaic texts

The linguistic term “formulaic language” refers to fixed expressions or sequences of words that are often used as a single unit and are typically stored in memory and retrieved as complete units during communication, rather than being constructed or analyzed anew each time by the rules of grammar. Today, however, the concept of formulaicity has expanded beyond individual word combinations to include larger units as formulaic texts. In certain text genres such as abstracts and recipes, formulaicity is visible not only at the level of wording, but also in text content, structure, and layout. But it has not been examined in other text genres where professionals could benefit from this fixed structure in order to produce acceptable texts. In the present article we aim to analyze if wine tasting notes can be considered formulaic in nature. To meet our expectations, a corpus of wine tasting notes written originally in English will be used and collocations that help build up a text examined; by using Biel’s text-organizing patterns and term-embedding collocations, and by analyzing tasting notes in terms of Gülich’s criteria for formulaic texts, the present study will try to show if wine tasting notes are indeed formulaic. Our findings enhance dictionary entries by capturing the full spectrum of sensory experiences and professional terminology in oenology, improving lexical entries in both oenology and general monolingual dictionaries through the identification and categorization of formulaic language in wine tasting notes.

Confessional Component of Urbanonymy in Lexicographic Interpretation

This article addresses the issues of enhancing the lexicographic representation of confessionally marked urbanonyms. The objective of the study is to substantiate parametric models for dictionary entries that allow for a comprehensive presentation of the confessional component of urbanonymy in both culturalhistorical and functional aspects. The research material is drawn from the database of the Experimental Laboratory of Educational Lexicography at Pskov State University, which contains 3,000 urbanonyms, including more than 200 ecclesionims (official, colloquial, and slang), forming the core of the urbanonymconfessionalism dataset. Through structuralsemantic and contextual analysis, the study identifies the denotative correlations, lexical composition of these urbanonyms, and various types of their variations in contemporary speech. Historical-etymological analysis aids in uncovering the motivations behind nomination. The method of linguocultural interpretation is employed in developing the commentary section of the dictionary entry. Lexicographic construction techniques are utilized in creating an improved model for entries in a general alphabetical urbanonym dictionary and an innovative discourse-type entry for an urbanonym guide dictionary. Samples of dictionary entries with accompanying comments are presented.

Meaning beyond lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models

Abstract Pseudowords such as “knackets” or “spechy” – letter strings that are consistent with the orthotactical rules of a language but do not appear in its lexicon – are traditionally considered to be meaningless, and employed as such in empirical studies. However, recent studies that show specific semantic patterns associated with these words as well as semantic effects on human pseudoword processing have cast doubt on this view. While these studies suggest that pseudowords have meanings, they provide only extremely limited insight as to whether humans are able to ascribe explicit and declarative semantic content to unfamiliar word forms. In the present study, we employed an exploratory-confirmatory study design to examine this question. In a first exploratory study, we started from a pre-existing dataset of words and pseudowords alongside human-generated definitions for these items. Employing 18 different language models, we showed that the definitions actually produced for (pseudo)words were closer to their respective (pseudo)words than the definitions for the other items. Based on these initial results, we conducted a second, pre-registered, high-powered confirmatory study collecting a new, controlled set of (pseudo)word interpretations. This second study confirmed the results of the first one. Taken together, these findings support the idea that meaning construction is supported by a flexible form-to-meaning mapping system based on statistical regularities in the language environment that can accommodate novel lexical entries as soon as they are encountered.

Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary

The paper aims to understand the various legacies of eugenics in the postwar period to recognize both the continuities and discontinuities of eugenics with an approach which is both conceptually sound and historically correct. Building on earlier work of Lene Koch, the paper endeavours to chart the historical trajectory of eugenics by examining how its definition and those of its related or oppositional concepts have evolved within selected lexicon entries across various stages of the century. The inclusion and publication of a concept within a lexicon indicate its significance, linguistic vitality, and prevalence in public discourse. These entries serve as a window into the contemporary understanding and application of concepts over an entire century, offering insights into the practices of eugenics as interpreted by the authoritative scholars of the era. Additionally, these lexicon entries offer more than just a mirror to the past’s prevailing attitudes. The very act of articulating a concept may be viewed as a pivotal element in social struggles, influencing the course of eugenic practices and their interpretations. Both conceptual history and discourse analysis share common ground in their perception of concepts, considering the use of language as a social activity endowed with performative capabilities. They recognize that language does not merely reflect reality but can actively shape it, playing a significant role in societal dynamics and power relations. The Hungarian lexicon entries on eugenics reveal notable disparities in the identified content, the periodization, and the evolution of changes when compared to Lene Koch’s earlier study on Scandinavian eugenics. In Hungary, the concept of eugenics underwent significant changes over four successive periods. The history and interpretation of eugenics can vary significantly from one country to another. Different nations have had their unique experiences and trajectories with the eugenics movement, which have been shaped by their specific cultural, political, and social contexts. These variations emphasize the importance of considering the localized and historical perspectives when examining the concept of eugenics.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL TYPE "WRITER"

The article attempts to classify writers the linguistic and cultural type of writer. The relevance of the study of the linguistic and cultural type of writer is determined by the signifi cance of writers in the development of the culture of a particular people, as well as the world cultural heritage in general. Based on the modeling of linguistic and cultural types, an analysis of the components of the type presented for research is carried out. The con-ceptual component is represented by the study of dictionary entries, as well as the defi nition of lexemes included in the semantic field of the criterion. The fi gurative and associative features inherent in writers are considered. The axiological side of the linguistic and cultural type of writer is represented by the value guidelines of the writer’s creative activity. Writing activity is a subject-object relationship, where the subject is the author of the work, and the object is the result of his creativity. Also included in this scheme is the reader, who, depending on the position of consideration, can be both an object and a subject. Thus, we have identifi ed two categories of criteria: subjective and objective. The subjective components of the linguistic and cultural type of writer include the following criteria: talent, fame, signifi cance, professionalism. The category of object components of the linguistic and cultural type of a writer includes two criteria: the type and genre of literature, as well as the author’s target audience. The criteria "talent", "fame" and “professionalism” are presented in the form of dichotomies, that is, components that are mutu-ally exclusive. A dichotomous approach to classifying the components of the linguistic and cultural type of writer expands the concept of writer and also allows us to clarify its defi nition. As a result of the study, it was revealed that, regarding the volume of components of the object category of criteria, two components are distinguished — gift and glory. The completeness and complexity of the criteria allow us to draw a conclusion about the importance of the “fame” component for American linguistic culture. In addition, this allows us to make an assumption about the uni-versal nature of the "gift" criterion as characteristic of the linguistic and cultural type of writer in diff erent cultures.

CORRELATION OF THE TERMS "CLASSIFICATION ATTRIBUTE", "MOTIVATIONAL ATTRIBUTE", "SEMANTIC ATTRIBUTE"

The problem of distinguishing the terms "classification attribute", "motivational attribute", "semantic attribute" arose in connection with the active development of cognitive linguistics and the expansion of its terminology. The article describes for the first time approaches to understanding terms in a comparative aspect. The author analyzes dictionary definitions, consistently identifying classification, motivational, semantic features of lexemes, demonstrating the differences between these features. The author comes to the conclusion that the terms "classification attribute", "motivational attribute", "semantic attribute" differ functionally, their use is due to the paradigm and the field of linguistics in which the researcher works. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to distinguish the terms "classification attribute", "motivational attribute", "semantic attribute". Materials and methods. The material for the study was contexts with these terms extracted from scientific papers on cognitive linguistics, word formation, theoretical semantics, as well as dictionary entries. The descriptive and comparative methods, and method of theoretical analysis, were used. Results. The results of the study showed that the terms "motivational attribute", "semantic attribute", "classification attribute" differ functionally. The study of motivational attribute is aimed at identifying linguistic patterns. The study of semantic attribute is aimed at describing lexical (linguistic) meanings. The analysis of classification attribute aims to identify extralinguistic, namely cognitively significant information about the objects of reality. Practical implications. The results of the study can be used in lexicographic and translation practice, in research on issues of nomination, lexical meaning and linguistic categorization.

MATHEMATICS THROUGH LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE THROUGH MATHEMATICS: CONDENSATION TRANSCRIPTION AS A POINT OF SYMBIOSIS

This paper explores the idea of condensation transcription—which is defined as the reduction of lengthy collections of lexical elements or mathematical descriptions into short forms—as the point where mathematics and language learning cross-influence one another notably. To elaborate, condensation transcription is defined as the linguistic ability and procedure that permits the reconstruction and compacting of larger lexical sets into more manageable forms while maintaining the basic meanings of those sets. Such a phenomenon occurs when mathematical concepts are rewritten from page-long descriptions to figures and numerical entities, and when literary passages are compressed into their main ideas. Formulation of the problem. Word problems, main idea identifications, and essay writing are some of the most dreaded topics of study in mathematics and language. In order to suggest improvements in these challenging areas within the education of both disciplines, this paper’s research emphasizes the significance of condensation transcription and makes readers aware of it by examining lexical elements in language and mathematical entities, pinning their origins, and explaining what learning strategies can be extracted from language that could be useful in mathematics learning, and vice versa. Materials and methods. The resources used in this investigation include a comprehensive dictionary entry, a word problem, literary text passages, and written explorations of mathematical concepts, all of which are dissected through the implementation of condensation transcription’s conventional procedures, which are termed ‘analysis,’ ‘coding,’ and ‘decoding.’ This procedure is necessary to show, first-hand, how condensation transcription works and how it is applied, as well as what can be gleaned from its functions and applications. Results. The results point to condensation transcription being a basic concept in mathematics and language that powers mathematical learning through comprehension of language, and reversely. Conclusions. As a whole, this paper underscores the importance of having the knowledge of condensation transcription in language and mathematics. By recognizing the role of condensation transcription as a foundational language process, practitioners in both language and mathematics could make some of the most difficult concepts in both disciplines easier for students to grasp.

Словарь речений из богослужебных книг прот. А. И. Невоструева (позвизданїе — помѣстный)

The “Dictionary of Locutions from Liturgical Books” by Protopriest A. Nevostruev, completed in the middle of the 19th century and never published, can be regarded both as a significant achievement of Church Slavonic studies and as a valuable lexicographic source. The manuscript is kept in the Russian State Library. The decrepit state of the manuscript has determined the necessity of its urgent study and edition. The significance of this project is primarily due to the fact that the text of the dictionary is being made accessible to linguists for the first time. The orthography and grammar of the dictionary reflect the linguistic views of the time of its creation and can be of interest for those who study the history of Russian linguistics. This paper contains the 4th part of dictionary entries beginning in letter P. The characteristic features of the publication of this Dictionary, the lists of sources, abbreviations and symbols were described in detail in the previous issues of St. Tikhon’s University Review. All previously published parts of the Dictionary together with the critical apparatus can be found at the website of St. Tikhon’s University for the Humanities.

Специфика трансляции концепта «Город» средствами креолизованного текста для иностранных обучающихся

<p>This article examines the features of educational creolized texts for foreign students, with the help of which the specifics of the functioning of the concept “CITY” are revealed. The scientific works of famous scientists devoted to the nature of the concept have been studied. Based on the analysis of dictionary entries, the core of the concept “CITY” was described, as well as its features within the framework of the Russian national worldview were considered. The verbal and non-verbal components of creolization, representing the concept of “CITY” in educational publications on Russian as a foreign language, have been systematically studied. An independent classification of thematic groups has been developed and characterized, the elements of which translate the concept of “CITY” in the analyzed didactic material. Based on the counting method, the most frequent lexemes representing this concept were identified. The specifics of the disclosure of the concept of “CITY” in various texts are investigated.</p>

ENGLISH ADVERBIAL MOTION VERBS IN THE ORIGINAL AND WAYS OF THEIR TRANSFER IN UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION

Paradigmatic and syntagmatic characteristics of adverbial verbs (AVs) of motion were analysed in the original, and the ways of their transfer in the Ukrainian translation were investigated. The analysis of their dictionary entries shows that most of them possess branched semantic structures and include an integral seme which can be either principal or optional. Their syntagmatic potential is quite wide, based on the variety of distributional patterns that were found. Three methods of their translation were registered: variant matches, translation transformations and zero translation (the least frequent). Translation transformations (contextual substitutions) turned out to be the dominant translation method. The following combinatorics of translation options was established: a) transmission of the seme of motion within the structure of the occasional correspondence; b) “leveling” of this seme and actualization of “other action” seme; c) actualization of motion seme in the verbs which don’t have it in their SL semantic structures. Correlation between the factors predetermining translation strategies was established. AVs’ contextual surroundings, with possible incorporation of contextual semes in the semantic structures of these verbs, turned out to be the most influential factor in the translation process. Context, in a broad sense, presupposes obligatory consideration of such parameters as differences in semantic scopes and combinability of words in the SL and TL. Besides, it is also necessary to take into account the factor of compliance of the translation equivalent with the literary norms of the TL. AVs’ right surroundings (post-positive particles) are also quite important, as they enrich their semantics and specify the way of motion. They were mainly rendered by means of prepositions, adverbs and a variety of prefixes as a substitute of SL prepositions. In order to achieve adequacy of translation, the translator resorted to different lexical and grammatical transformations, such as: specification of meaning, modulation, substitution of parts of speech, permutation, addition and antonymous translation. Individual AVs with connotative overtones presented the greatest problem for the translator. Translation is a synthesis of objective and subjective factors. Translator’s individuality and expertise predetermine the quality of the final product.

Lexicography of the Tatar language ethnocultural vocabulary

The article describes the four-volume “Ethnocultural Dictionary of the Tatar Language”, which was compiled by a team of teachers from the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University. This work records the vocabulary of the Tatar language, reflecting the people’s traditional culture, which accumulates information about the surrounding world, living conditions, everyday life, work organization, etc. Such studies are a reliable aid in studying the circumstances and factors of the national culture formation.Ethnocultural dictionaries give a fragmentary idea of the Tatar people’s linguistic picture of the world. To determine the role and place of culturally marked vocabulary selected for the compilation of the dictionary entries, its authors analyzed the dictionaries of the 19th-21st centuries, studied the use of these words as part of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings, as well as their use in songs and works of art. This study of the culturally marked units adds new data to the history of the formation, development and improvement of Tatar material and spiritual culture. The proposed works can serve as a model for compiling ethnocultural dictionaries of other Turkic-speaking peoples; the material, collected in these lexicographic works, will find a worthy place in the dictionaries of concepts of Turkic languages.

The communicative and pragmatic potential of German traditional and modified phraseological units

This article examines the traditional form and modifications of the German phraseology «in Saus und Braus leben» in the modern German press on economic topics from 2018 to 2024. The purposes of using phraseological units in the economic media discourse are diverse. Journalists, in an effort to attract the attention of the readers, use vivid and expressive phraseological units often modifying them. The purpose of the article is to determine the communicative and pragmatic potential of the traditional and modified unit, to identify ways of modifying it, and to present a lexical description of the phraseology. The work describes the functioning of this phraseology both in its traditional form and as modified within media discourse. In order to conduct the research, the following methods were used: an analytical and descriptive approach, linguistic stylistic analysis, and systematization of results, continuous sampling, complex linguistic description, statistical processing, and generalization of data. The material for this study consisted of newspaper articles published in German electronic media, such as «Manager magazin», «Die Tageszeitung», «Der Spiegel», «Focus», «Taz», «Berliner Zeitung». During the study, we found that traditional and modified forms prevail in the article body, often realizing the function of attracting attention, expressive and evaluative functions. It was revealed that the frequency of implementation of the modified phraseology is almost 1.5 times higher than its implementation in the traditional form. Both traditional phrases and their modified variants are used in their original meaning without changing the meaning of the sentence. Within the framework of the studied corpus of traditional and modified phraseological units, the following modifications were identified: change of the grammatical form, expansion of phraseology through additional components, replacement of the verb, reduction of the usual form of phraseology. In the course of the study, an expanded model of the dictionary entry was proposed, considering the specifics of the modern functioning of phraseology in the texts of economic discourse. This description will reflect both the traditional form and the structural and semantic modifications of phraseological units in the media discourse on economic topics.

V. I. ABAEV'S HISTORICAL-ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY: ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIGITAL BILINGUAL EDITION

In this article, we discuss the conclusions of the project on digitizing and translating the Historical-Etymological dictionary of Ossetic by V.I. Abaev, which has been carried out by the authors since 2020. The entries of the original include information of several kinds: Russian translations of an Ossetic word, related examples, usage and etymological notes. The etymological notes are usually free-form texts with a large number of cited forms from other languages (cognates, loanword sources, etc.). We argue for maximal preservation and thorough encoding of this information when creating a digital database. The optimal format for such purposes is XML markup, more specifically its variant intended for annotating text documents, TEI (Text Encoding Initiative, https://tei-c.org/). For digitizing the dictionary, we created a modification of this markup language, a module for Oxygen XML Editor, and a set of CSS files that ensure maximum similarity between our layout and the original. The same combination of XML and CSS allows generating the print version of the dictionary using the Prince typesetting system (https://www. princexml.com/) without any additional processing. For ease of search and access, we suggest supplementing the XML sources with a relational database automatically created from the lexical entries. In our project, this database serves as the source for the online interface of the dictionary (https://ossetic.iranic.space), powered by the OnLex platform [Makarov et al. 2022]. Hence, the project combines the features of several database types, which fully corresponds to the multi-faceted character of the original dictionary. We hope that our experience can be used for other digital lexicographic projects.

Wybory translatorskie XIX-wiecznego słownikarza rosyjskiego jako impuls do badań chronologizacyjnych polskiej leksyki zapożyczonej

Fifty-one entries (with the letter M) in the Russian-Polish dictionary of 1877 which were assigned a discussion of the meaning instead of a real translation, e.g. муссон – wjatr periodyczny [a periodic wind], were examined. These were limited to borrowed Russian units which today correspond to Polish borrowed units, e.g. муссон – monsun [monsoon]. The Polish words are the object of the analysis. In order to discover the reason for their omission from the dictionary, evidence of their use in the corpus of historical texts was sought. It was found that 80% of the borrowings (41 units) occurred in texts before 1876, but some of them were not recorded in the dictionaries of the time and perhaps that is why they did not find their way into the translation dictionary. 20% of the material (10 units) is lexis that entered circulation after the dictionary was published.