Sydsvenska dialektordböcker och en sydsvensk dialektdatabas

Abstract

Two Southern Swedish dialect dictionaries, Skånska dialektord (2012, 2014) and Blekingska dialektord (2013), are based on a database assembled at the Dialect and Place-name Archive in Lund, the Southern and Western Swedish dialect database (www.sprakochfolkminnen. se). Both the user of the database and the person consulting the dictionaries have three ways to access the content: Information about the words can be sought via a section with normalized headwords, or via another section with dialectal forms (the pronunciation of the words) or via the meaning of the words. Problems in connection with the choice of headword are discussed. It is above all the normalized form that causes difficulties. The purpose of these headwords is to show implicitly the origin of the word and help a person with the standard language as the starting point to find information about the dialect.