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Paths to a Dictionary of Early Modern Czech
Nejedlý, Petr
Existing diachronic dictionaries record the Old Czech lexicon (from the period 1300–1500 approximately) quite well. Despite this fact, a dictionary of Middle Czech (1500–1780) is still missing. For such a type of dictionary, it will be necessary to gather representative material capturing characteristic features of its age, i.e. the increase in general literacy enabled by gradual development of the school system and the discovery of book-printing and, in addition, the Renaissance/humanistic worldview. The material will inevitably show elements of discontinuity with the previous phase of the language. In order to express all the mentioned qualities of the lexicon, there is a need to gather c 120–140 thousand lexemes, and, even in such a case, we have to take a certain percentage of words into account, which will not be recorded in the final database. The systemic description of the period lexicon will only be misrepresented at the very minimum.
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