EURALEX 2026

Session

Multilingualism, Language Varieties & Contact Lexicography

30 Sept 2026, 09:00

OeAW Main Seat

Conveners

Multilingualism, Language Varieties & Contact Lexicography

• Kristina Koppel (Estonian Language Institute)

Multilingualism, Language Varieties & Contact Lexicography

• Lars Trap-Jensen (Society for Danish Language and Literature)

Multilingualism, Language Varieties & Contact Lexicography

• Veronique De Tier (Dutch Language Institute)

25. A Dictionary for All Canadians: Establishing an Inclusive Standard for the Canadian English Dictionary

Emma Ferrett (Queen's University), Amir Ghorvei (Queen’s University), Anastasia Riehl (Queen's University)

30/09/2026, 09:00

To create ‘a dictionary for all Canadians’ is one of the stated goals of the new Canadian English Dictionary (CED). But who are ‘all’ Canadians, and how can a single resource meet their varied needs? To help answer these questions and develop lexicographical principles and protocols, the team behind the CED is exploring the concept of an ‘inclusive standard’. In this talk, we discuss our...

26. Reversing the New English–Irish Dictionary Database to Create Entry Frameworks for Irish–English and Monolingual Irish Dictionaries

Cormac Breathnach (Foras na Gaeilge), Pádraig Ó Mianáin (Foras na Gaeilge)

30/09/2026, 09:30

The first major monolingual Irish dictionary, An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge [The New Irish Dictionary] was launched in December 2025, when an initial tranche of 40,000 senses was published on focloir.ie. The dictionary will be added to incrementally in 2026 and 2027 to bring it to its content target of 80,000 senses. Along with the monolingual dictionary, a new bilingual Irish-English dictionary is...

27. Spanish Loanwords in Modern Greek: Linguistic Analysis and Lexicographic Treatment in the Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek

Zoe Gavriilidou (Democritus University of Thrace)

30/09/2026, 10:00

This study aims to provide a systematic linguistic and lexicographic analysis of Spanish-derived loanwords in Modern Greek, addressing the limited attention given to Spanish as a donor language.

Methodologically, it draws on a dataset of 130 items, combining 105 entries from the Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek (DSMG) with 25 additional items collected from contemporary digital...

28. From Pilot to Practice: Two Years of Progress in Developing a Shared Infrastructure for Dutch Dialect Dictionaries

Veronique De Tier (Dutch Language Institute), Katrien Depuydt (Dutch Language Institute), Koen Mertens (Dutch Language Institute), Mathieu Fannee (Dutch Language Institute)

30/09/2026, 10:30

At Euralex 2024, the initial design of a digital lexical infrastructure for Dutch Dialects was presented, developed in response to requests from dialect organizations in the Netherlands and Flanders to support the compilation and publication of dialect dictionaries. That contribution focused primarily on conceptual design choices and technical feasibility. Two years later, the project has...

60. Reframing Wan (完), Hao (好), and Dao (到) in Chinese–Korean Bilingual Lexicography: A Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis

Seulki Lee (Chungbuk National University)

01/10/2026, 09:00

Introduction
Chinese resultative complements such as Wan (完), Hao (好), and Dao (到) are frequently treated in bilingual dictionaries as generalized markers of completion or result. However, existing lexicographic descriptions often rely on simplified lexical glosses such as ‘finish’, ‘good’, or ‘arrive’, obscuring important cognitive-functional distinctions among these complements. In...

61. From Lexical Theory to AI Translation: Procomplement Verbs and ChatGPT

Valeria Caruso (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale), Geraint Paul Rees (Pompeu Fabra University)

01/10/2026, 09:20

Procomplement verbs (PCVs) are a highly frequent yet understudied class of semantically idiosyncratic verb–clitic constructions found across Romance languages. Despite their relevance for everyday communication, they remain only marginally represented in grammars and dictionaries. Building on recent theoretical work on Italian PCVs and drawing on Generative Lexicon theory, this study...

116. Bilingual Lexicography Under Resource Asymmetry: Designing Yoruba–German Dictionary Articles in Dialogue with Galician–German

Luke Omoyemi Akinremi (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Elena Martín-Cancela (Universidade da Coruña)

01/10/2026, 09:40

This paper addresses the challenge of designing bilingual dictionary articles under resource asymmetry by focusing on the Yoruba–German language pair and drawing methodological insights from the more developed Galician–German ecosystem. It proposes a resource-aware model of dictionary article composition that explicitly accounts for limited evidence by making uncertainty visible, using...

90. Beyond the Single Standard: Addressing Variation and User Needs in an Online Frisian Dictionary

Nika Stefan (Fryske Akademy), Johan van der Zwaag (Fryske Akademy), Hindrik Sijens (Fryske Akademy)

01/10/2026, 16:00

This paper examines the challenges of representing linguistic variation in Frisian lexicography, focusing on the Dutch-Frisian online dictionary. While existing lexicographic resources already accommodate variation to some extent, discrepancies remain between dictionary representation and actual language use. Survey data and usage examples reveal complex patterns in which standard forms...

91. Synonyms That Never Met: On the Compilation of the Dictionary of the Dubrovnik Idiom

Ivana Lovrić Jović (Institute for the Croatian Language), Lana Hudeček (Institute for the Craoatian Language)

01/10/2026, 16:30

This article outlines the Dictionary of the Dubrovnik Idiom project at the Institute for the Croatian Language. Given its unconventional conceptual framework, this dictionary adopts a diachronic approach, incorporating headwords from diverse historical periods (spanning from the 16th to the 21st century) and across a broad spectrum of linguistic registers: from the vernacular to high-prestige...

92. From Plurilingual Lexicography and Terminography to Generative AI Translation: Potential, Limits, and the Enduring Role of Dictionaries

Valeria Zotti (University of Bologna), Rita Gramellini (University of Bologna)

01/10/2026, 17:00

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have profoundly reshaped the landscape of translation. Large Language Models (LLMs) such OpenAI’s GPT series are now capable of producing fluent, coherent and context-aware translations that go beyond the word-for-word logic traditionally associated with earlier forms of Machine Translation (MT) systems (Kenny, 2022). Despite their...