Usual vs Dictionary: Terms Oppositions

Oksana Tyshchenko

Information about the author:  

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5709-1252

e-mail: tom-73@ukr.net

Title: Usual vs Dictionary: Terms Oppositions

https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2025-8-7

Rubric: THEORY OF THE TERM. TERM AND LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Abstract: The article substantiates the need to introduce oppositions in the terminological designation of linguistic phenomena in linguistics, verified by primary sources (usual phenomena) and secondary sources (dictionary or lexicographic phenomena). To distinguish between the usual and dictionary verification bases of practice, the terms usual / dictionary innovation; reactivation (deactivation); worldview are proposed. Dictionary innovation is a linguistic unit in a new hypostasis as an object of lexicography, presented through the prism of lexicographic modelling. This is an innovation in the dictionary as a secondary source (in the form of a certain model depending on the type of dictionary) – in contrast to innovation in language, in primary sources. Analysis of sources with a distinction between usual and dictionary innovations will contribute to a more accurate qualification of the status of new or updated linguistic units as neologisms. It is assumed that such oppositions may continue to arise depending on the subject of scientific study.

Keywords: primary sources, secondary sources, term, dictionary, usual, innovation, reactivation, worldview.

References:

Diundyk, O.A. (2015). Lexicon in the formation of the idiostyle of Ye. Pashkovskyi [Diss. … candidate of philological sciences]. Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] (in Ukr.).

Baloh, V.O., Lozova, N.Ye., Tymenko, L.O.& Tyshchenko, O.M. (2010). New and updated words and meanings: dictionary materials (2002–2010). Kyiv: Dmytro Buraho Publishing House (in Ukr.).

Pelya, A. (2024) Polish-Ukrainian encounter with phraseology (Rev.: Iryna Kononenko / Iryna Kononenko. Wielki polsko-ukraiński słownik frazeologiczny z indeksem / Large Polish-Ukrainian phraseological dictionary with index, Warsaw: Warsaw University Publishing House, 2023, 734 p.). Lexicographic Bulletin, 33, 203–214 (in Ukr.).

Starko V.F. (2025) Review of the layout of the publication “Lexicographic Bulletin” (Collected scientific works. Responsible editors Ye.A. Karpilovska and O.M. Tyshchenko. Issue 33. Kyiv, 2024. 322 p.) [manuscript] (in Ukr.).

Tyshchenko, O., & Pozdran, Yu. (2016). Reactivated vocabulary of the “Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary” edited by A.Yu. Krymsky and S.O. Yefremov. Native word in ethnocultural dimension (pp. 183–199) (in Ukr.).

Tyshchenko, O.M. (2023). Principles of compiling the register of the author’s dictionary: lexicographic innovations. In L.I. Didun, Z.H. Kozyreva, L.V. Movchun, I.A. Samoilova, N.V. Snizhko, O.M. Tyshchenko & T.V. Tsymbalyuk-Skopnenko. Theoretical foundations of lexicography of language creation: idiolect and usage (pp. 282–307). Kyiv: Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the NAS of Ukraine (in Ukr.).

Tyshchenko, O.M. (2024). Dictionary innovation. Lexicographic Bulletin. (Issue 33) (pp. 287–290). Kyiv (in Ukr.).

Tsyhvintseva, Yu.O. (2021). Sources and methods of neosemantization of modern Ukrainian vocabulary [Diss. … Doctor of Philosophy]. Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the NAS of Ukraine (in Ukr.).

Tsyhvintseva,  Yu.O. (2025). Neosemantization in the modern Ukrainian language: factors of activation of internal resources of the nomination. Vinnytsia [awaiting publication] (in Ukr.).

Shulha, T. (2010). Extra-dictionary vocabulary in the prose of Yevhen Dudar. Lexicographic Bulletin. (Issue 19) (pp. 210–218). Kyiv (in Ukr.).