Electronic Corpus of RUSSIAN dialects of Udmurtia: New Opportunities
This paper presents the results of the Electronic corpus of Russian dialects of Udmurtia project (second half of the 20th century - the early 21st century) based on linguistic-geographical information system "Dialect": new textual material has been introduced in the form of the copies of written texts and audio recordings, the texts’ markup has been made to identify dialect words, LGIS "Dialect" has been upgraded to mapping these words and words outside the Lexical atlas of Russian folk dialects’ program on which the LGIS "Dialect" is based. This paper presents the opportunities for working with LGIS "Dialect" in the field of linguistic geography (electronic mapping of Russian dialects of Udmurtia), dialect lexicography (previously unknown dialect words fixation, vocabulary entries’ creation to identify the dialect markings, searching for new contexts), regional history (information concerning the living of the rural population of Udmurtia in the 20th century), teaching of linguistic related subjects (preparation of teachers’ guides, using as information sources for seminars, students’ independent study and theses).