Normering i Svenska Akademiens ordlista 1874–1950: principer och resultat

Resumé

This paper gives a historical survey of the first nine editions (till 1950) of the
Swedish Academy Glossary (Svenska Akademiens ordlista, SAOL), a dictionary that
provides the Swedish norm of spelling and inflection. Some orthographic and
morphological recommendations of the glossary are compared with the real use. The
main drawback of the first editions (1874–89) is that they contained very few
lemmas, and almost no recent loanwords. From the 1900 edition and onwards, the
number of lemmas is quite respectable, but throughout the period the SAOL is
characterized by a conservative tendency; there are several examples of spellings and
morphological categories – as is shown in the paper – that are recommended by the
dictionary long after they have become outdated.