Working on an Historical Dictionary: The Swedish Academy Dictionary Project

The Intelligent Dictionary Project

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Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Demotic Dictionary Project

A couple of years ago the report on the Demotic Dictionary Project highlighted our knowledge of the animals familiar to the Egyptians who lived and wro te during the • • • • • • • millennium from the 7th century B.C. until the 3rd century A.D. This was the time when Demotic was the standard script used by residents in Egypt who wished to wr i te in the Egyptian language; many Greek immigrants a...

Demotic Dictionary Project

When people think of ancient Egypt, they tend to think of temples and tombs decorated with hieroglyphs and of rich and powerful rulers controlling all aspects of the lives of their subjects. Since the draft manuscript that I have been checking this year included the letter P, and since the letter P includes a word for king, I thought it might be interesting to think about the phrases and titles...

A new Dictionary of Swedish Pronunciation

This paper describes some aspects of a pronunciation dictionary for Swedish, "Svenskt Utlalslexikon" (SUL), which is piesenUy developed at our departm ent This dictionary provides, among other items, three kinds of information about Swedish pronunciation that are not included in standard dictionaries: information on varian ts , on inflected form s and com pounds, and on p ro p er names. SUL is ...