Abstract

This article presents DiCo, an inventory of the changes in the nomenclature of four French dictionaries (Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, Dictionnaire Hachette, Le Petit Larousse and Le Petit Robert). For each modification recorded, DiCo provides additional information on the microstructural level, such as the linguistic labels included in the article where the change occurred. Based on a manual comparison of the successive editions of a given dictionary, DiCo can be the starting point for quantitative and qualitative metalexicographical studies. The description of the diachronic evolution of a dictionary and the comparison of different dictionaries reveal that not only does lexicographical change reflect language evolution, but that the content of a dictionary is also bound to the editorial policy of a publishing house, itself subject to change. Given the scarcity of information on this topic provided to the general public by French publishing houses, a resource facilitating metalexicographical investigations is particularly helpful. In addition to enabling a better understanding of French dictionaries, DiCo may be useful to linguists interested in lexicology and diachronic and diatopic variation. Finally, it might also prove useful for building lexicons for natural language processing.

中文翻译：

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使用 DiCo 数据库进行金相调查

摘要

本文介绍 DiCo，这是对四本法语词典（Dictionnaire de l'Académie française、Dictionnaire Hachette、Le Petit Larousse和Le Petit Robert ）命名法变化的清单）。对于记录的每个修改，DiCo 提供有关微观结构级别的附加信息，例如发生更改的文章中包含的语言标签。基于对给定词典连续版本的手动比较，DiCo 可以成为定量和定性金矿学研究的起点。对字典历时演变的描述和不同字典的比较表明，字典的变化不仅反映了语言的演变，而且字典的内容也与出版社的编辑政策有关，而出版社的编辑政策本身也会发生变化。鉴于法国出版社向公众提供的有关该主题的信息稀缺，促进金相调查的资源特别有用。除了能够更好地理解法语词典之外，DiCo 还可能对对词汇学以及历时和变位变异感兴趣的语言学家有用。最后，它也可能被证明对构建用于自然语言处理的词典很有用。