tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post7128587843042629923..comments2024-03-21T09:39:36.523+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: Little Grammar of Early Modern Greekopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-21998367196522993222009-04-14T11:53:00.000+10:002009-04-14T11:53:00.000+10:00You have followed me as desired! Mwahaha! Welcome!...You have followed me as desired! Mwahaha! Welcome!<br /><br />That would be eminently sensible; Greek lexicography has suffered a lot from the Start At Alpha thing. The Greek dialect dictonary (1933- ) is up to delta (a draft of the whole thing is in place after a lot of pushing, but no idea when it gets out). The big Diccionario Griego-Español (1980-), which aims to supersede LSJ, is not only stuck at epsilon; IT'S JUST GONE BACK AND REDID VOLUME 1! People, you're not going to run out of new texts; just move forward. That's mercifully what Trapp's doing—he'll do the supplement AFTER finishing the whole thing.<br /><br />But yeah, anything from 800 AD to 1800 AD after pi is currently very poorly served in Greek lexicography, and it really shows in the lemmatisation I'm doing: there's a lot more initial sigmas and taus in the words the lemmatiser has no idea about than there should be.<br /><br />The lexicographers are getting better, which gets noticeable over a 200 year span; the current lexica are all 20th century though, so the work in progress is not as uneven as elsewhere. I freaked out when I saw how pathetic the Grimm dictionary volumes that the Grimms actually worked on were. Which is why they're redoing A-F—but only when the whole thing finished, 150-odd years later, not 25 years in.opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-36034223811829749652009-04-14T11:42:00.000+10:002009-04-14T11:42:00.000+10:00Maybe the next person to do a dictionary here coul...Maybe the next person to do a dictionary here could start at Nu, just as the OED3 has started at M? Not only will it fill the gaps, but it'll improve the quality at Alpha, assuming that dictionary editors get better as they go on.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com