Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?) IX
4. The 1995 English learners' dictionaries — bibliographical references XIII
5. I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background - assessment of specific features - the perspective of the user
6. Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective 3
7. Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE 15
8. Word complementation in English learners' dictionaries - a quantitative study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5 33
9. Exemplification in EFL dictionaries 45
10. The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries - and others 71
11. Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries 81
12. The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE 101
13. Access structures of learners' dictionaries 113
14. Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE 131
15. The treatment of international varieties 143
16. Lexical evolution and learners' dictionaries 151
17. Political correctness in learners' dictionaries 161
18. The advanced learners' dictionary: syntax cum semantics 175
19. Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE 189
20. Teachers' demands on learners' dictionaries 199
21. II. Learners' dictionaries - other dictionaries
22. Semiotaxis and learners' dictionaries 205
23. Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries 213
24. On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography) 221
25. Designing an English Valency Dictionary: combining linguistic theory and user-friendliness 229
26. III. Dictionaries - corpora - perspectives
27. Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners' dictionaries, especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 257
28. Needles and haystacks, idioms and corpora: Gaining insights into idioms, using corpus analysis 265
29. Corpora and dictionaries 283
30. Moving towards perfection: The learners' (electronic) dictionary of the future 295
31. Appendix: German and French abstracts 307