TY - JOUR AU - Haraldsson, Helgi PY - 2007/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Om noen praktiske spørsmål i tospråklig leksikografi JF - Nordiske Studier i Leksikografi JA - NSL VL - 0 IS - 9 SE - Artikler DO - UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/nsil/article/view/19160 SP - AB - <p>The article discusses the relation between conventional textbooks of grammar, dictionary<br />grammars and grammatical information in the lemma list section (the dictionary proper)<br />in a bilingual dictionary. The treatment of synonym groups is also commented upon.<br />Particular attention is given to grammatical categories that exist only in one of the<br />two languages involved, such as the definite article in Nordic languages versus Russian<br />and other Slavic languages, the aspect category in the latter which is absent in Nordic languages.<br />It is important that these differences are clarified and explained as meticulously as<br />possible by concrete indications and examples of use. Instances of this are shown, e.g the<br />problem of translating examples containing the only Russian past tense into Germanic<br />languages which possess a number of past tenses, e.g. the choice between ”aoristic” and<br />”perfectivic” meaning of the Russian perfective past tense.<br />Furthermore it is of paramount importance not to overlook differences in the meaning<br />structure and extension (range of meanings) of the source language lemma and its<br />primary equivalent in the target language. A comparison of the solution of such problems<br />in three different dictionaries is presented.<br />The use of a certain category, existing in both source and target language, may reveal<br />subtle differences not to be ignored. An instance of this is a specific use of the grammaticalized<br />definite article in Norwegian and Icelandic, an idiosyncrasy that is not heeded in<br />textbooks. Needless to say, it is practically impossible to cover all the above-mentioned<br />differences by examples in every concrete case, and ad hoc solution must be applied to a<br />great extent.</p> ER -