Metalexicographical Investigations with the DiCo Database

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