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Glancing back, looking forward : The Swedish Academy Dictionary completed after 130 years – now time for revision

Nilsson, Pär LU (2024) In Lexicographica 40(1). p.5-28
Abstract
The first part of the first volume of the Swedish Academy Dictionary (SAOB) was published in 1893 and the last volume was finished in 2023. Thus Sweden’s most extensive lexicographical project was completed after more than 130 years of work. But the completion is not the end of the dictionary project. Since 2024 a revision project is launched. In this paper the history of the dictionary project is outlined and the revision project is described in more detail, with a focus on controversial words and descrip-tions and the gender classification of nouns.
Abstract (Swedish)
The first part of the first volume of the Swedish Academy Dictionary (SAOB) was published in 1893 and the last volume was finished in 2023. Thus Sweden’s most extensive lexicographical project was completed after more than 130 years of work. But the completion is not the end of the dictionary project. Since 2024 a revision project is launched. In this paper the history of the dictionary project is outlined and the revision project is described in more detail, with a focus on controversial words and descrip-tions and the gender classification of nouns.
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lexikografi, historisk lexikografi, SAOB, kontroversiella ord, grammatiskt genus, Historical dictionary, dictionary revision, the Swedish Academy Dictionary, controversial words, gender of nouns
in
Lexicographica
volume
40
issue
1
pages
24 pages
publisher
De Gruyter
external identifiers
  • scopus:85210410474
ISSN
0175-6206
DOI
10.1515/lex-2024-0002
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English
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  doi          = {{10.1515/lex-2024-0002}},
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