9 A Methodological Framework for the Epigraphic South Arabian Lexicography. The Case of the Sabaic Online Dictionary

Abstract

This paper describes the concept and functionalities of an online reference dictionary for Sabaic, aiming to present all extant lexical material of this Ancient South Arabian language. After introducing the features of the corpus, several methodological issues, and the solutions adopted within the project are illustrated, focusing in particular on the annotation of morphological analysis (treatment of ambiguous forms, homographs, heterographs with identical meaning, variant readings, incorrect forms). The conception developed to present the material online is also described.