EURALEX 2026

Session

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

30 Sept 2026, 09:00

OeAW Main Seat

Conveners

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

• Geraint Paul Rees (Pompeu Fabra University)

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

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

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

• Carolina Flinz (University of Pavia)

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

• Alfred Lameli (Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas)

Historical & Diachronic Lexicography

• David Lindemann (EHU University of the Basque Country)

29. Gender Representation and Editorial Responsibility in the OED: A Case Study of female, feminine, male and masculine

Daniele Franceschi (Roma Tre University)

30/09/2026, 09:00

As a dictionary grounded in diachronic evidence, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) occupies a central position in the tradition of historical lexicography, documenting not only the evolution of lexical meaning but also the cultural assumptions embedded in language over time. While the OED is explicitly descriptive and corpus-based, scholarship has shown that definitional framing and...

30. Can AI-Assisted Normalisation Improve Access to Historical Lexicographic Data?

Tarrin Wills (University of Copenhagen), Ellert Thor Johannsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

30/09/2026, 09:30

The topic of this article is AI-assisted normalisation and how it can be used in the context of a historical dictionary. We look at data from A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, which is a lexicographic resource on the language of medieval Iceland and Norway. This dictionary has a long tradition of using non-normalised, diplomatic text editions as source for its lexicographic descriptions. As a...

31. Artificial Intelligence as Support for the Digitization and Compilation of the Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic

Ana Mihaljević (Institute for the Croatian Language), Josip Mihaljević (Institute for the Croatian Language)

30/09/2026, 10:00

The Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic (RCJHR) is the first lexicographic description of the Croatian Church Slavonic language. Within the project Development of the Digital Infrastructure Model of the Old Church Slavonic Institute (DigiSTIN), the printed RCJHR is being digitized and adapted for online publication, while the RCJHR project focuses on compiling new...

32. Compiling a 16th-Century Croatian Dictionary in the Age of AI: Challenges and Perspectives

Petra Bago (University of Zagreb), Ivana Eterović (University of Zagreb)

30/09/2026, 10:30

This paper presents the theoretical and methodological foundations for an online dictionary of sixteenth-century Croatian. It utilizes a corpus of ten Gospel translations in Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Latin scripts, en-compassing missals, lectionaries, Bible translations, and postils. This work is a primary objective of the project *CroBiLex: Language Variation in Croatian Books of the Early...

63. Digital Metalexicography as a Tool for Historical (Contact) Linguistics

Agnes Kim (University of Ostrava)

01/10/2026, 10:00

This contribution presents a data collection on ‘Slavic in Viennese’, i.e. (glottonyms for) Slavic languages, (ethnonyms for) their speakers as well as single linguistic phenomena in German varieties typical for Vienna, that comprises 6,406 articles on 268 lemmas from 30 dialect dictionaries published between 1800 and 2020. In the contribution’s first part, corpus compilation and the...

118. Digitization of Adam Patačić's Manuscript Dictionary

Željko Jozić (Institute for the Croatian Language), Marijana Horvat (Institute for the Croatian Language), Martina Horvat (Institute for the Croatian Language)

01/10/2026, 10:20

Adam Patačić is a Croatian lexicographer (1716–1784), Archbishop of Kalocsa and President of the Royal Council of the University of Buda and a promoter of music with his orchestra and choir. His extensive Dictionarium latino-illyricum et germanicum remained in manuscript, written after the example of Nomenclator omnium rerum by Hadrian Junius (Samardžija, 2019, p. 63).

The mentioned...

117. Canadian English Dictionary: A Progress Report

John J. Chew III (Canadian English Dictionary), Emma Ferrett (Queen's University), Anastasia Riehl (Queen's University)

01/10/2026, 10:40

Canada is long overdue for a new English dictionary. In this presentation, we describe progress to date on the Canadian English Dictionary (CED), a new general dictionary of Canadian English being edited by the recently incorporated Society for Canadian English, with the support of Editors Canada, the University of British Columbia’s Canadian Word Centre, and Queen’s University’s Strathy...

95. Vol. IX of the Etymological Dictionary of Old High German [Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (EWA)]: History Structure, Contents

Harald Bichlmeier (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig)

01/10/2026, 14:00

The paper presents vol. IX of the Etymological Dictionary of Old High German [Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen], the most encompassing etymological dictionary of any (Old) Germanic language. The volume will have roughly 800 pages, contain a total of 2,950 entries, of which 234 are main entries (the number is only about half the number of the main entries of vol. VIII) coming...

94. Legal Lexicon and the e-DRAE 1884: A Diachronic Study of Specialised Vocabulary in a General Dictionary Using a Digital Critical Edition

Marija Žarković Eriksson (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

01/10/2026, 14:30

This paper presents a methodology for the diachronic study of legal lexical units related to criminal law in a nineteenth-century general-language dictionary, the twelfth edition of the Diccionario de la lengua castellana of the by the Real Academia Española (DRAE 1884), as analyzed through its critical and digital edition (e-DRAE 1884). The study combines a lexicographical examination...

93. From Ḋamma to Ġabra: Four Centuries of Maltese Lexicography

Michael Spagnol (University of Malta), John J. Camilleri (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg), Dwayne Ellul (University of Malta)

01/10/2026, 15:00

This paper presents a historical and typological overview of Maltese lexicography, tracing the development of lexical resources from the earliest manuscript dictionaries to recent digital initiatives. It surveys major multilingual, bilingual, monolingual and specialised dictionaries while discussing the methodologies underlying Maltese lexicography over the years. Emphasis is given to the...

137. Towards a Handbook of Persian Lexicography: A Lexicographical-Functions Analysis of 20th–21st Century Dictionaries

Saghar Sharifi (Karaj Islamic Azad University), Abolfazl Alamdar (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran)

02/10/2026, 14:00

This article examines four major Persian dictionaries—Dehkhoda (1940), Mo’in (1972), Sokhan (2003), and Aryanpur (2009)—through Tarp’s Function Theory of Lexicography (2008). Using a descriptive-analytical mixed-methods design, the study evaluates the dictionaries in terms of four lexicographical functions: text reception, text production, translation, and knowledge acquisition. The...

138. The Effects of Purism on a Nineteenth-Century Icelandic Bilingual Dictionary

Jóhannes B. Sigtryggsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

02/10/2026, 14:30

The Icelandic linguist and philologist Konráð Gíslason (1808–1891) was the author of an influential Danish–Icelandic dictionary published in 1851, the first bilingual dictionary of its kind. The significance of this work lay less in its impact on lexicography than in its role in the history of linguistic purism in Iceland. One of its most distinctive features was the near absence of loanwords...

139. The Making of Meaning: From the 1980 Communist Albanian Dictionary to the Great Dictionary of 2026

Manjola Zaçellari (Aleksander Moisiu University (UAMD))

02/10/2026, 15:00

In the Albanian totalitarian political context, linguistic resources were considered an important tool for the installation of the guiding ideology and the materialist worldview. Dictionaries, being reference works, were very favourable and effective for normalizing any ideological perspective, even presenting them as objective linguistic truths. (Fairclough, 1992, p. 87). Our study aims at...

122. A Semantic Web Model for Diachronic Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionaries: Capturing Conceptual Change and Denominational Variation

Silvia Piccini (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli”), Andrea Bellandi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli”), Giuliana Elizabeth Vilela Ruiz (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli”), Davide Saponaro (Fondazione Rut)

02/10/2026, 16:00

This paper presents a computational and Semantic Web–based model for Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionaries (ECDs), well-established lexicographic resources grounded in Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology and Meaning–Text Theory (Mel’čuk et al., 1995). The model aims to make ECD structures machine-actionable, FAIR-compliant (Wilkinson et al., 2016), and interoperable with the Linguistic...

123. DiaLexPoL: LLM-assisted Sense Assignment for a Diachronic Dictionary of Latin

Krzysztof Nowak (Institute of Polish Language PAS), Iwona Krawczyk (Institute of Polish Language PAS), Jagoda Marszałek (Institute of Polish Language PAS)

02/10/2026, 16:30

The DiaLexPoL project is building a diachronic lexical database of Neo-Latin (ca. 1550–1800) from the semi-automatically compiled diachronic corpus of Polish Latin (DiaCorPoL). Its principal bottleneck is sense assignment: referring early-modern attestations to an inventory designed for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Poland (DMLP). We ask whether deployable LLMs – cheap commercial...

124. Tracking Eight Centuries: The Czech Monitor Corpus as a Resource for Diachronic Lexical Research

Václav Cvrček (Charles University), Martin Stluka (Charles University), Klára Pivoňková (Charles University)

02/10/2026, 17:00

This paper demonstrates the central role of richly annotated diachronic corpora in investigating historical lexical change, using the newly compiled Monitor Corpus of Czech as a case study. The corpus covers over eight centuries of the Czech written tradition and is designed as a general-purpose, consistently annotated resource for diachronic research. Unlike earlier diachronic corpora of...