A Practical Guide to Lexicography

Name: A Practical Guide to Lexicography
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Piet van Sterkenburg(Editor)

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Published on 17. July 2003

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A Practical Guide to Lexicography
Editorial page
Title page
LCC page
Table of contents
Preface
Part 1 - The forms, contents and uses of dictionaries
Chapter 1. Foundations
1.1 `The' dictionary: Definition and history
1. Introduction
2. Criteria
2.1. Formal criteria
2.2. Functional criteria
2.3. Criteria regarding content
2.4. Definition
3. Brief history of dictionaries
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The glossaries
3.3. Vocabularies: Conflatus, Vocabularius Ex quo, Gemmula and Gemma
1.2 Source materials for dictionaries
1. Lexicographic resources and evidence: An overview
2. Corpora as lexical resources
3. Databases as lexicographic resources
1.3 Uses and users of dictionaries
1. Surveys
2. Meta-lexicography
3. Towards a model of dictionary use
4. Experimental research
5. Conclusion
1.4 Types of articles, their structure and different types of lemmata
1. Introductory remarks
2. The structure of dictionary articles
3. Different types of articles
3.1. Articles with a main lemma versus articles with a sublemma as the guiding element
3.2. Articles displaying a single structure and articles with a synopsis structure
4. Different types of lemmata
5. Macrostructural diversity
5.1. A straight alphabetical ordering
5.2. Nested and niched lemmata
6. In conclusion
1.5 Dictionary typologies: A pragmatic approach
1. Introduction
2. Dictionary typologies and distinctive features
3. The major dictionary types
3.1. Linguistic dictionaries versus encyclopaedias
3.2. Linguistic dictionaries
3.3. Restricted dictionaries
4. Multilingual dictionaries
5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Descriptive lexicography
2.1 Phonological, morphological and syntactic specifications in monolingual dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Phonological information
3. Morphological information
3.1. Nouns
3.2. Adjectives
3.3. Verbs
4. Syntactic information
4.1. Nouns
4.2. Adjectives
4.3. Verbs
5. Conclusion
2.2 Meaning and definition
1. Do I focus on the senses of individual words?
2. Which readings of a word do I consider relevant?
3. Which type of meaning do I have to define?
4. Which linguistic perspective do I take?
5. Which definitional format do I use?
6. Summary
2.3 Dictionaries of proverbs
1. Introduction
2. Typology of English proverb books
3. Macrostructure of English dictionaries of proverbs
4. Microstructure of English proverb dictionaries
Notes
2.4 Pragmatic specifications: Usage indications, labels, examples
dictionaries of style, dictionaries of collocations
Notes
References
2.5 Morphology in dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Morphology in a few large monolingual dictionaries
3. The reception perspective
3.1. Derivations that contain irregular/unpredictable elements in their form-content systems
3.2. Derivations with regular/predictable systems of form and content
3.3. Conclusions to date
4. The production perspective
4.1. Derivations
4.2. Compound words
5. Conclusion
2.6 Onomasiological specifications and a concise height8pt depth3pt width0pt history of onomasiological dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Onomasiological specifications in systematic dictionaries
3. Onomasiological specifications in synonym dictionaries
3.1. The alphabetically ordered synonym dictionary
3.2. The reverse dictionary
3.3. The pictorial dictionary
4. Onomasiological specifications in semasiological dictionaries
5. Electronic onomasiology
5.1. Onomasiological: From the definitions dictionary
5.2. Onomasiological: Specifically developed for that purpose
6. History
Chapter 3. Special types of dictionaries
3.1 Types of bilingual dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Reception vs. production
3. Unidirectional vs. bi-directional
4. The status of the user
5. Conclusion
3.2 Specialized lexicography and specialized dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts of specialized lexicography
3. Characteristics of specialized dictionaries
3.1. Subject coverage
3.2. Language
3.3. Intended users and purpose
3.4. Macrostructure
3.5. Microstructure
3.6. Medium
4. Fundamental steps for compiling a specialized dictionary
4.1. Introductory reading and delimitation of the subject field
4.2. Corpus selection
4.3. Scanning
4.4. Data analysis
4.5. Preparation of specialized dictionary entries
5. Other types of specific-purpose dictionaries
Part 2 - Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries
Chapter 4. Corpora for dictionaries
4.1 Corpora for lexicography
1. Introduction
Generic Corpora
Transposability
2. Textual integrity
Preserve the original
Make a digitised copy
3. Typology
Origin
State
Aims
4. Conclusion
Notes
4.2 Corpus processing
1. Introduction
2. Properties of language text
3. Mark-up (or Mark&endash
up)
4. Plain text
5. Archive, corpus and database
6. Annotation
7. Annotation issues
8. Single data stream
9. Multiple data streams
10. Annotation choices: Summary
11. Conclusion
Notes
4.3 Multifunctional linguistic databases: Their multiple use
1. Introduction
2. Multiple use of lexicographic resources: Background
3. Multiple use of lexicographic resources: Some examples
3.1. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English LDOCE
3.2. WordNet and EuroWordNet
3.3. WordNet and Hector corpus and dictionary
3.4. Corpora
4. Multifunctional databases: Considerations in reusability
4.1. Standards
4.2. A theory-neutral approach?
4.3. Evaluation
4.4. Legal issues
5. Multiple use as a stimulus for more collaboration
Notes
4.4 Lexicographic workbench: A case history
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Design of dictionaries
5.1 Developments in electronic dictionary design
1. Introduction
2. From traditional dictionaries to electronic dictionaries
3. Improved access commands more explicit information
3.1. No more abbreviations
3.2. Indexing headwords plus variants
3.3. Cross-references become obsolete
3.4. Bothersome duplication dispatched
3.5. Recognition of multi-word lexemes as lexical entities
4. Functionality of electronic dictionaries improved
4.1. Adjustable selection of data
4.2. Representation
4.3. Reversed dictionary: The onomasiological approach
4.4. One type of data can serve several purposes
5. Extension of the dictionary
5.1. Extension of the lexicon
5.2. Integration of other dictionaries
5.3. Incorporation of other reference works
5.4. Integration in the software environment
6. Conclusion
Notes
5.2 Linguistic corpora (databases) and the compilation of dictionaries
1. Macro design: Consideration of user requirements
2. Micro design: Front matter
3. Abbreviations and symbols
4. Layout and typography
5. The entry
Notes
5.3 The design of online lexicons
1. Introduction
2. ``Lexicons''
3. ``Online''
4. Macrostructure
5. Macrostructure in online lexicons
6. Fuzzy matching and stemming
7. Multiword queries
8. Microstructure and the content of entries
8.1. Density in the microstructure of print dictionaries
8.2. The Microstructure of online lexicons
9. New textual content in online lexicons
9.1. Full paradigms
9.2. Example sentences
10. Necessary ``encyclopedic'' information
11. Multimedia in online lexicons
Note
Chapter 6. Realisation of dictionaries
6.1 The codification of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information
1. Introduction
2. Phonological information
3. Morphological information
4. Syntactic information and idiomatic patterns
6.2 The production and use of occurrence examples
1. Collecting the evidence
2. Processing the evidence (by hand)
3. Processing the evidence (with the help of computers)
4. Citing evidence within the dictionary
5. Conclusion
Note
6.3 The codification of semantic information
1. Introduction
2. Identifying the senses
Interpretation
Splitting and lumping
Senses and contextual modulations
Relatedness of senses: Polysemy and homonymy
The reality of four dictionaries
3. Ordering the senses
Methods
Flat structure and hierarchical structure
The four dictionaries
4. Defining the senses
5. The future
Appendix
Longman, Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE)
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (COBUILD)
The New Oxford Dictionary (NODE)
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (CHAMBERS)
6.4 The codification of usage by labels
1. What is a label?
2. Classification of labels
2.1. Group labels
2.2. Register labels
2.3. Figurative use
2.4. The offensive use of words
3. The functions of labels
4. Final remarks and conclusion
Notes
6.5 The codification of etymological information
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical choices
3. Practice
4. Looking ahead
Notes
Chapter 7. Examples of design and production criteria for major dictionaries
7.1 Examples of design and production criteria for bilingual dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Architecture
3. Organisation
4. Business plan
5. Conclusion
7.2 Design and production of terminological dictionaries
1. From terminological dictionaries to terminological databases
1.1. Differences/similarities between general and terminological dictionaries
1.2. Terminological databases
2. Design and production of terminological databases
2.0. A stepwise production model
2.1. The preparatory phase
2.2. The construction of a text corpus
2.3. The design of a datamodel
2.4. Term acquisition
2.5. Description of the data according to the model and their application
3. Conclusion
Notes
7.3 Design and production of monolingual dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Point of departure
3. Stages in the design
3.1. Market research and preliminary stage
3.2. Draft design
3.3. Production
4. Recapitulation
7.4 Towards an `ideal' Dictionary of English Collocations
1. Introduction
2. The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations
3. Selected English Collocations
4. English Adverbial Collocations
5. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English
6. CDROM Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Collocations
A Deskbook of Most Frequent English Collocations
A Dictionary of English Collocations
7. Conclusions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
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