TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN THE “DICTIONARY OF A. V. KOLTSOV’S POETRY”


2024. № 1 (39), 83-96

Voronezh State University

Abstract:

The article presents a new concept of the “Dictionary of A. V. Koltsov’s poetry”, which will be a kind of fusion of tradition and innovation. This fusion is found in various aspects of dictionary creation: the corpus of sources, fundamental principles, macrostructure and microstructure. The principles underlying the proposed concept include: 1) the principle of completeness; 2) the functional-content principle; 3) the principle of unity of quantitative and qualitative parameters; 4) the aesthetic principle; 5) the principle of reconstruction of the artistic worldview of A. V. Koltsov; 6) the principle of the (maximum possible) reconstruction of the idiolect of A. V. Koltsov. The macrostructure of the dictionary is quite traditional and includes seven sections: 1) Introduction; 2) Sources; 3) List of abbreviations; 4) Alphabet; 5) Dictionary entries; 6) Appendices; 7) Table of сontents. The article includes 11 zones: 1) lemma; 2) phonetic information; 3) statistical information; 4) grammatical characteristics; 5) stylistic characteristics; 6) description of meanings; 7) contexts; 8) compatibility; 9) satellite words; 10) phraseology; 11) composite nominations. Lexicographic innovations were concentrated mainly in zones 6, 7, 9 and 11. An example of innovation is the fi xation of satellite words in a dictionary entry, these are lexical units that are semantically related to the described word, but do not have a syntactic connection with it and are non-randomly presented in the same or in a neighboring sentence. Thus, the compilers of the dictionary made an attempt, relying on the traditions of Russian general and author lexicography, to create a largely innovative dictionary concept corresponding to the current level of development of philological science.