Talesätt och talemaader: om ordförbindelser hos Dalin och Molbech

Abstract

In this paper I present a study which contributes to the description of lexicographic traditions in Sweden and Denmark. More exactly, the study concerns the treatment of word combinations, which are followed by some kind of explanation, in two 19th century monolingual dictionaries. The works are the Swedish dictionary Ordbok öfver svenska språket (1850–55) by A. F. Dalin and the Danish dictionary Dansk Ordbog (…) (1833) by C. Molbech. The focus is, among other things, on the frequencies and types of word combinations that are represented in the data. Furthermore, I consider in which entries the word combinations are found, and the position of the expressions in the microstrucure of the articles. Moreover, I discuss the form and meaning of the word combinations and, finally, the authors’ use of (signed) examples.