Dictionary of the living Belarusian language in the 20 years of the twentieth century: criteria for selection of vocabulary and its fixation
This article is devoted to the formation of the registry of the dictionary of the living Belarusian language in the 20 years of the twentieth century in comparison with the most important Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Ukrainian dictionaries. Special attention is drawn on the criteria for inclusion into a future dictionary of loan words, terms, narrowly regional dialect, slang, personal names, place names, and other layers of vocabulary, as well as on the structural features of the entry: combined clearance means of the entry, a lack of stylistic marks, mandatory non-anonymous illustration and linguistic passport of each lexeme or its meanings. Also, tasks have been revealed, which must decide a future academic dictionary: show the lexical composition of the Belarusian language and enrich it by including terminology and abstract vocabulary, thus allowing regulatory writings and having proved the independence of the Belarusian language.