Et arkiv over forandringer i moderne norsk ordforråd og dets betydning for norsk leksikografi

Resumé

Since 1968 a project for registrating lexical changes in Norwegian has been going on at the Section of Lexicography, University of Oslo. The number of excerpts is now about half a million, covering new words, new meanings of words, new phraseology and various characteristic lexical features in modem Norwegian. The greatest part of the material is computerized, and each excerpt is provided with a code which gives information about word class, gender and various lexical and syntactic features. The topic of this paper is furthermore what the material has been used for, particularly its importance for dictionary making in Norway the last 20 years, and finally how useful material of this kind is in dictionary making.