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The temporary validity of words and the dictionaries

Authors

Juan Manuel García Platero Universidad de Sevilla (España)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.54.09

Keywords:

dictionaries, archaisms, lexical variation

Abstract

This paper defends the need to establish diachronic markings in the different lexicographic repertoires that overcome excessively simplifying approaches. Similarly, it advocates a more precise treatment of lexical obsolescence, which rigorously considers the age variable and establishes boundaries between the active and passive vocabulary, because the absence of a mark would imply, in principle, validity of the cataloged lemma.