Core vocabulary and its variance in the early fourteenth-century Latin distinction collections
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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2533-2325/22369Parole chiave:
Preaching, distinctiones, 14th century, lexicography, lemmatisationAbstract
The article aims to identify which kinds of words the early fourteenth-century distinction collections provided as material for sermon-making and whether those collections differ from similar earlier ones. The study focuses on three large-scale collections: Mathias of Linköping’s Alphabetum dictinccionum, Petrus Berchorius’s Repertorium morale, and Arnaud Royard’s Distinctiones. The article shows that the core of their vocabulary was common verbs and nouns of the Bible. Still, these compilers provided a greater variety of words than their colleagues in previous centuries. The article also demonstrates some variance between the three collections, which results from compilers' interests and their sources. In addition, the article points out a methodological challenge in comparing lemmatised headwords with computational methods. A relatively low correlation between the vocabularies may result because the compilers distinguished meanings of various lexemes from the same root under a single entry, but chose only some of them as headwords.
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