Fra dype betydningshierarkier til flatere struktur – et innblikk i revisjonen av Norsk Riksmålsordbok

Abstract

The Norwegian Academy’s Dictionary (NAOB) is planned to be published
in 2014, as a central part of the project of supplying Bokmål/
Riksmål with a scholarly national dictionary. NAOB is a userorientated
modernization and expansion of Norsk Riksmålsordbok
(NRO), a diachronic, literary dictionary comprising 4 main volumes
(1937–57) and 2 supplementary volumes (1995). This article
focuses on one of many aspects of the modernization process: editing
the description of meaning. Prior to editing the original NRO
meanings, semantic restructuring is often required, as many NRO
article structures are needlessly deep and complex.