Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. I. The forms, contents and uses of dictionaries
5. Chapter 1. Foundations
6. 1.1 ‘The’ dictionary 3
7. 1.2 Source materials for dictionaries 18
8. 1.3 Uses and users of dictionaries 26
9. 1.4 Types of articles, their structure and different types of lemmata 34
10. 1.5 Dictionary typologies 44
11. Chapter 2. Descriptive lexicography
12. 2.1 Phonological, morphological and syntactic specifications in monolingual dictionaries 71
13. 2.2 Meaning and definition 83
14. 2.3 Dictionaries of proverbs 94
15. 2.4 Pragmatic specifications 102
16. 2.5 Morphology in dictionaries 114
17. 2.6 Onomasiological specifications and a concise history of onomasiological dictionaries 127
18. Chapter 3. Special types of dictionaries
19. 3.1 Types of bilingual dictionaries 145
20. 3.2 Specialized lexicography and specialized dictionaries 154
21. II. Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries
22. Chapter 4. Corpora for dictionaries
23. 4.1 Corpora for lexicography 167
24. 4.2 Corpus processing 179
25. 4.3 Multifunctional linguistic databases 194
26. 4.4 Lexicographic workbench 204
27. Chapter 5. Design of dictionaries
28. 5.1 Developments in electronic dictionary design 215
29. 5.2 Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries 228
30. 5.3 The design of online lexicons 240
31. Chapter 6. Realisation of dictionaries
32. 6.1 The codification of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information 251
33. 6.2 The production and use of occurrence examples 260
34. 6.3 The codification of semantic information 273
35. 6.4 The codification of usage by labels 297
36. 6.5 The codification of etymological information 314
37. Chapter 7. Examples of design and production criteria for major dictionaries
38. 7.1 Examples of design and production criteria for bilingual dictionaries 323
39. 7.2 Design and production of terminological dictionaries 333
40. 7.3 Design and production of monolingual dictionaries 350
41. 7.4 Towards an ‘ideal’ Dictionary of English Collocations 366
42. Glossary 389
43. Bibliography 421
44. General index 443