The Perfect learners' dictionary / edited by Thomas Herbst and Kerstin Popp.

The series features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included if they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The volumes focus on aspe...

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Other Authors: Herbst, Thomas, 1953-, Popp, Kerstin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999.
Series:Lexicographica. Series maior ; 95.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?)
  • The 1995 English learners' dictionaries
  • bibliographical references
  • I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background
  • assessment of specific features
  • the perspective of the use
  • Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective
  • Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE
  • Word complementation in English learners' dictionaries
  • a quantitative study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5
  • Exemplification in EFL dictionaries
  • The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries
  • and others
  • Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries
  • The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE
  • Access structures of learners' dictionaries
  • Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE
  • The treatment of international varieties
  • Lexical evolution and learners' dictionaries
  • Political correctness in learners' dictionaries
  • The advanced learners' dictionary: syntax cum semantics
  • Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE
  • Teachers' demands on learners' dictionaries
  • II. Learners' dictionaries
  • other dictionaries
  • Semiotaxis and learners' dictionaries
  • Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries
  • On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography)
  • Designing an English Valency Dictionary: combining linguistic theory and user-friendliness
  • III. Dictionaries
  • corpora
  • perspectives
  • Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners' dictionaries, especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  • Needles and haystacks, idioms and corpora: Gaining insight into idioms, using corpus analysis
  • Corpora and dictionaries
  • Moving towards perfection: The learners' (electronic) dictionary of the future.