A Practical Guide to Lexicography

1. Preface; 2. I. The forms, contents and uses of dictionaries; 3. Chapter 1. Foundations; 4. 1.1 'The' dictionary: Definition and history (by Sterkenburg, Piet van); 5. 1.2 Source materials for dictionaries (by Cermak, Frantisek); 6. 1.3 Uses and users of dictionaries (by Bogaards, Paul); 7. 1.4 Types of articles, their structure and different types of lemmata (by Gouws, Rufus H.); 8. 1.5 Dictionary typologies: A pragmatic approach (by Swanepoel, Piet); 9. Chapter 2. Descriptive lexicography; 10. 2.1 Phonological, morphological and syntactic specifications in monolingual dictionaries (by De Caluwe, Johan); 11. 2.2 Meaning and definition (by Geeraerts, Dirk); 12. 2.3 Dictionaries of proverbs (by Predota, Stanislaw); 13. 2.4 Pragmatic specifications: Usage indications, labels, examples; dictionaries of style, dictionaries of collocations (by Burkhanov, Igor); 14. 2.5 Morphology in dictionaries (by De Caluwe, Johan); 15. 2.6 Onomasiological specifications and a concise history of onomasiological dictionaries (by Sterkenburg, Piet van); 16. Chapter 3. Special types of dictionaries; 17. 3.1 Types of bilingual dictionaries (by Hannay, Mike); 18. 3.2 Specialized lexicography and specialized dictionaries (by Bowker, Lynne); 19. II. Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries; 20. Chapter 4. Corpora for dictionaries; 21. 4.1 Corpora for lexicography (by Sinclair, John McH.); 22. 4.2 Corpus processing (by Sinclair, John McH.); 23. 4.3 Multifunctional linguistic databases: Their multiple use (by Kruyt, Truus); 24. 4.4 Lexicographic workbench: A case history (by Ridings, Daniel); 25. Chapter 5. Design of dictionaries; 26. 5.1 Developments in electronic dictionary design (by Oppentocht, Lineke); 27. 5.2 Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries (by Varantola, Krista); 28. 5.3 The design of online lexicons (by Burke, Sean Michael); 29. Chapter 6. Realisation of dictionaries; 30. 6.1 The codification of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information (by Booij, Geert); 31. 6.2 The production and use of occurrence examples (by Simpson, John); 32. 6.3 The codification of semantic information (by Moerdijk, Fons); 33. 6.4 The codification of usage by labels (by Verkuyl, Henk J.); 34. 6.5 The codification of etymological information (by Sijs, Nicoline van der); 35. Chapter 7. Examples of design and production criteria for major dictionaries; 36. 7.1 Examples of design and production criteria for bilingual dictionaries (by Honselaar, Wim); 37. 7.2 Design and production of terminological dictionaries (by Martin, Willy); 38. 7.3 Design and production of monolingual dictionaries (by Kiefer, Ferenc); 39. 7.4 Towards an 'ideal' Dictionary of English Collocations (by Nuccorini, Stefania); 40. Glossary; 41. Bibliography; 42. General index