electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language : 2019 edition
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 188689684
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- August
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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http://www.dil.ie
- Supplementary information
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https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/research/Companion%20to%20eDIL%202019%20FINAL.pdf
- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output is the result of a five-year collaborative AHRC project with Toner as PI, a CI in Cambridge and two PDRAs. It involved a detailed, line-by-line analysis of over 75 book-length textual editions which had not been available to the original editors of the various fascicles of the Dictionary. This investigation enabled the team to identify previously unrecorded words, produce new definitions, provide corroborating evidence for poorly attested usages or senses, identify earliest usages, and generate new grammatical information. The project has resulted in a new edition incorporating 3572 new or revised entries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This revised edition of the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language is the result of a five-year collaborative AHRC project with Toner as PI, Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge) as CI and two PDRAs (Arbuthnot, Wodtko/Theuerkauf). The aim of the project was to revise entries in the Dictionary in light of more recent scholarship and so establish a more authoritative lexicographical resource for the study of medieval Irish language, literature and history. Research comprised a detailed, word-by-word analysis of 72 book-length textual editions and editions, as well as a substantial number of articles, which had not been available to the original editors of the various fascicles of the print Dictionary on which eDIL is based. The new edition comprises 3572 new or significantly revised entries as well as numerous other minor corrections. It contains previously unrecorded words, new definitions, corroborating evidence for poorly attested usages or senses, earliest usages, and new grammatical information (on gender, stem, part of speech etc.).
The revised edition of the Dictionary was published online in August 2019 and launched on 28 August 2019 in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Revised entries are marked in the live Dictionary with the year of publication given as the year of revision (2019). Significant changes made to the Dictionary were documented in a separate Companion which was published in August 2020 (https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/research/Companion%20to%20eDIL%202019%20FINAL.pdf). The Companion, therefore, provides a time-stamped record of the most important changes to the Dictionary carried out between 2014 and 2019.
Toner was the lead editor on the project and was primarily responsible for the development of the methodology and editorial policy. Revisions were drafted by the PDRAs and all proposed revisions were edited/approved by Toner and Ní Mhaonaigh on the project’s backend database; problematic entries were discussed at full team meetings.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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