Grammatik och finsk-svenska ordböcker

Abstract

The framework of the discussion about the role of grammar in dictionaries changes
continuously: new grammar theories open new models of analysis useful for
lexicographers, the users’ knowledge of grammar and need for explicit grammatical
information in dictionaries vary, and new techniques make that information easily
available. In this article the role of grammar in bilingual productive Finnish-Swedish
dictionaries is discussed against the background of a few central, complicated and
contrastively problematic issues in the Finnish grammar, in the area between
morphology, syntax and pragmatics, difficult to catch in a user-friendly way within
the normal dictionary framework.