@article{Palkki_2006, title={Ordbok över äldre finskt skriftspråk}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/lexn/article/view/18575}, abstractNote={<p>The term Old literary Finnish means Finland’s written language during the Swedish<br />rule. The idea of a dictionary of old Finnish was first presented by E.N. Setälä,<br />professor of Finnish language, in his 1896 proposal for a dictionary program. The<br />planning of the dictionary was begun by professor Martti Rapola in 1956, but the<br />actual work on it was started only in the latter half of the 1960s. The basic material<br />for the dictionary consists of the vocabulary of the printed material from the era of<br />the Swedish rule. The examples are taken from a text corpus containing almost<br />three-and-a-half million words and a collection of approximately 550,000 file cards.<br />The third volume of the dictionary is compiled using structured FrameMaker+<br />SGML.<br />The Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish is descriptive and diachronical. It can<br />also be regarded as a quotations dictionary. Most headwords are in modern Finnish,<br />and other forms are presented as variants. The data from the dictionaries compiled<br />during the Swedish rule is also included in the articles. The main work consists of<br />going through the material and defining the meanings. One has to consider different<br />types of usage, how to divide different meanings into groups, etc., and proper<br />examples for each group have to be chosen. The explanation is usually a description<br />of the meaning, a definition, or a list of synonyms. In choosing the examples one<br />needs to consider the time, the type of literature, word forms, variants, idiomatic<br />patterns, etc. The articles in the dictionary are very different in type and size. In a<br />large article, the division into meaning groups can be considerably intricate. Besides<br />the primary articles there is a large amount of cross-references.<br />The Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish is a useful book for researchers of<br />language and history, and also for theologians and forensic historians. It is also<br />necessary for all Finns interested in their roots and culture.</p>}, number={13}, journal={LexicoNordica}, author={Palkki, Riitta}, year={2006}, month={jan.} }