The Great Dictionary of Contemporary Church Slavonic Language

The article focuses on the scholars’ efforts to compile the ten volumes of the Great Dictionary of Contemporary Church Slavonic Language using software tools and a digitized corpus of texts to speed up the work and enable users to extract words and phrases from the corpus semi-automatically. One of the dictionary’s advantages is its detailed descriptions of phraseology and linguistic metaphors. This is because the hymnographic works that comprise the Church Slavonic corpus are poetic in nature. The dictionary’s primary goal is to provide information on the meanings of Church Slavonic words and phrases. Furthermore, the authors included grammar data for each word and encyclopedic data when necessary. The illustrations are complete with comparisons from Greek sources. The dictionary contains all of the dictionary found in the liturgical books, such as place names (toponyms), proper names identifying different people (anthroponyms), and function words.