Compiling a dialectal dictionary: the “Syntychies” lexical database

Abstract

Please note: This article is in Greek. Compiling a dialectal dictionary: the “Syntychies” lexical database: This paper introduces the reader to the issues of making an online dialectal dictionary, presenting some of the matters that have arisen while producing a lexical database of the Cypriot Greek dialect. Most problems related to the selection of data and compilation of lemmas were caused by the great variation in orthographic and/or morphological representation of Cypriot word forms. The database which has been created as part of the “Syntychies” research program is available on the website http://lexcy.library.ucy.ac.cy. The choices that have been adopted in this database after a lexical analysis of a large amount of data outline a framework for compiling other dialectical dictionaries of Greek