Workshop: Lexicographical Traditions and Their Agendas

Collecting Words and Putting Them in Place: Lexicographical Traditions and Their Agendas

Jointly organised by the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts and the Academy Projects Etymologika, INEL, and Tamilex

The workshop aims at discovering the hidden universals that inform lexicographical writings beyond one specific language or period of time. To achieve this, we will adopt a comparative, multidisciplinary approach. The workshop will gather scholars from different disciplines to discuss lexicographical writings produced in a wide range of cultures and settings. We aim at covering Arabic, Greek, Sumerian, Akkadian, Siberian, Tamil, spanning from the fourth millennium BCE to the second millennium CE.