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18	18	== Project Abstract ==
19	19	The expansion of Catholicism and Protestantism in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 17th century determined a strong reaction of the Orthodox clergy, which led to the emergence of numerous Slavonic linguistic instruments, among which the Slavonic-Ukrainian Lexicon by Pamvo Berynda (Lexikon slavenorosskij i imenь tlьkovanije, Kiev, 1627). Considering the close relations between the Romanian states and Ukraine, Berynda’s lexicon had a strong impact in the Romanian space, which resulted in six Slavonic-Romanian dictionaries, all manuscript. Although they are the oldest Romanian bilingual dictionaries, and thus of great importance for Romanian culture.
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21	21	The project proposes an online comparative edition of these Slavonic-Romanian lexicons. The lexicons will be displayed online, in a digital comparative edition, with an interface that will allow complex queries, combining the information available in lexicons and searching for parts of words. The comparative approach will allow establishing the relations between them, whether they are independent or copies of the same source. This online edition will be a very useful tool, easy to reach by lexicographers, specialists interested in old Romanian corpora and other aspects pertaining to their exploitation and will make available to those interested, as open access corpus, this important and almost unknown part of the Romanian cultural heritage.
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23	23	== Objectives ==
24	24	The main objective is providing a digital comparative edition of the Slavonic-Romanian lexicons in the 17th Century. We have planned an on-line comparative edition because a completely digitized version allows the exhaustive data extraction and comparison, which will never happen in the case of a classical edition (printed on paper). One can obviously argue that a digitized edition provides an efficient rendering and exploitation of the linguistic content while running the risk of obscuring the image of the text seen as an object (by reorganizing its content). However, our priority is to be able to examine the linguistic content in order to provide answers to the questions and hypotheses we have advanced so far. More precisely, our aim is to gain perspective upon the lexicographic network and the scholars’ workshop from the school in Târgoviște. The database will allow constant updates with other texts as well as the linking to other dictionaries.
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26	26	Another objective is establishing relations with foreign research teams focusing on old lexicography and thus providing a framework for understanding the way in which linguistic information and models circulated in the pre-modern epoch, în Central and Eastern Europe.
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28	28	== Expected Results ==
29	29	The main result of the project is the comparative digital edition itself, which will allow further observations on the relations between the lexicons and also between them and other texts written in the same period, whose paternity is still controversial. The results of these observations will be published in articles and disseminated in conferences. The project will also propose a method for the setup of an aligned database that might be connected to the already existing electronic Romanian dictionaries (CLRe, eDTLR), supplementing the linguistic information they contain and will initiate a more extensive approach meant to produce processed and annotated digitised corpora of old Romanian to which these lexicons could be connected in order to emphasize translation practices, and specific uses of the linguistic material; these aspects could clarify some origin-related issues formulated up to the present date and which are difficult to check by means of classical text interrogation methods.
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31	31	The results of the workshop we will organise in the first year of the projectwill be published in a collective volume, by which we intend to offer a perspective on the specificity of the old lexicography in Central and Eastern Europe.
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33	33	== Project Plan ==