lexikografischen

Lexikografischen is the inflected form of the German adjective lexikografisch, meaning related to lexicography, the study and practice of compiling dictionaries. The noun for the field is Lexikografie. The term derives from Greek lexis (“word”) and graphein (“to write”), entering German through the long-standing linguistic vocabulary surrounding dictionaries and language description.

In usage, lexikografisch describes methods, data, or works in dictionary-making: lexikografische Arbeiten (dictionary-related works), lexikografische Kriterien (methods for selecting headwords), and lexikografische Daten (lexicographic data). The specific form lexikografischen appears in various cases, such as lexikografischen Kriterien or lexikografischen Einträgen. It is a common descriptor in both academic and applied contexts, including historical lexicography and modern computational lexicography.

Scope and significance: The field of lexicography encompasses descriptive lexicography (documenting word usage and meaning), editorial standards, and project management of dictionary projects, as well as corpus-based approaches and user-oriented lexicography (design of interfaces and search systems). German-language lexicography contributes to monolingual dictionaries, bilingual glossaries, specialized terminologies, and online dictionary resources. The term lexikografisch and its inflected forms, including lexikografischen, appear widely in scholarly writings, reference works, and language-technology terminology.

See also: Lexikografie, Lexikon, Lexikal.