Inheritable lexicographic resources of the phraseological dictionary database

The paper presents an overview of the principles of importing pre-existing dictionary articles into the database of the phraseological dictionary, i. e., using inheritable lexicographic resources. The import of dictionary articles into the database is based on two key principles: structuring the text of the articles and adding new fields and their values into the articles. Each article contains an idiom in German, one or several translations into Russian, their contexts, and a range of other components. The goal of the paper is to describe the principles of using and supplementing inheritable lexicographic resources during the process of forming the database of the phraseological dictionary of German idioms as well as comparing the features of the database with capabilities of similar lexicographic information systems of dictionary creation from the standpoint of the two aforementioned principles of import.