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Normative Labels in Slovene Dictionaries: Users’ and Lexicographers’ Perspectives
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Danko Šipka and others
International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 183–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecaa025
Published: 07 November 2020
... Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract This paper discusses normative labels in the Dictionary of Standard Slovene from the point of view of users and lexicographers. Using a questionnaire...
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From Orthoepy to Activism: Orthographic Interventions
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Jennifer Bann and John Corbett
Published: 01 November 2015
...The present chapter offers a historical survey of commentary on and attempted intervention in the practice of spelling Modern Scots. Four main groups are considered: orthoepists and linguistic scholars, lexicographers, literary commentators, and ‘language activists’. Each group has played a role...
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Starting where the Dictionaries Stop: The Challenge of Corpus Lexicography
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Charles J Fillmore and B T S Atkins
Published: 17 November 1994
...0 17 11 1994 How does the dictionary description of a word measure up to the facts that may be discovered about it in an electronic corpus? Does access to a large corpus help the lexicographer to give an accurate, comprehensive, and intelligible account of what the word means and how people use...
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Published: 25 March 2004
... and their combinations, and the meanings of only a small number of grammatical particles. The description of the meanings of words has been left to the lexicographers, for better or for worse; and linguists have long contented themselves with glosses which are labels but not descriptions. Recent activity...
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Introduction
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Philip Durkin
Published: 07 March 2016
... it brings to the wider lexicographical world. Part IV examines topics which have implications for various different types of lexicography, as well as challenges and debates that cross the boundaries of sub-fields. A book of this sort needs little in the way of formal introduction. Few people need...
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Languages: Universal, National and Regional
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Nicola Miller
Published: 20 October 2020
...This chapter describes a series of new national dictionaries as among the less noticed ways of commemorating the recent bicentenaries of independence. It talks about how Peruvian lexicographers presented DiPerú, Diccionario de Peruanismos (Dictionary of Peruvianisms...
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Published: 31 December 2020
... conversation schoolteachers patrons popularizers translators grammarians lexicographers editors university teachers Women have studied and shaped the English language since speakers of a West Germanic language invaded Britain in the fifth century ce . Yet, given the subordinate status...
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Dictionaries of Latin from 1565 to 1580
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John Considine
Published: 08 April 2022
...–Latin–French Alvearie , which is even richer in phraseological material than Huloets dictionarie ; a second edition of the Alvearie , by the first English professional lexicographer, Abraham Fleming, added Greek. Particular attention is given...
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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography
Philip Durkin (ed.)
Published online: 07 March 2016
Published in print: 26 November 2015
...This book provides a guide to the most significant contours in the geography of the lexicographical world, as well as offering series of eye-witness accounts of the major issues confronting lexicographers and the users of dictionaries today. Part I considers the synchronic dictionary...
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Published: 16 December 2013
...This article discusses three basic paradigmatic models that Arabic lexicographers adopted over time: (I) al-Khaliil’s model in Kitaab al-ʕayn; (II) al-Jawharii’s model in alhaah; and (III) al-Bustaanii’s model in Kitaab muħiiṭ al-muħiiṭ. Though the three approaches are procedurally opposed, all...
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Published: 27 August 1998
... of this output, reflecting the stress laid by Russian lexicographers on meeting the needs of students wishing to write in the foreign language (Tomaszczyk 1981; Morozenko 1986; Benson 1988). lexicographers international grammatical Collocational bilingual This content is only available as a PDF. ...
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French
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John Humbley
Published: 09 May 2002
...0 09 05 2002 This conference was called by Quebec linguists and lexicographers who were concerned by the phenomenon of anglicisms which had been replaced in Quebec coming through the ‘back door’ in the form of entries in dictionaries, those published in France in particular. The theme...
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Linguistic theory meets lexicography
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B T Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell
Published: 19 June 2008
...0 19 06 2008 By the nature of the work they do, lexicographers are applied linguists. Yet many people working in the field have no formal training in linguistics. Does this matter? Our experience as editorial managers suggests that good lexicographers operate to a large extent on the basis...
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The Linguistic Traditions of Lexicography
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Henri Béjoint
Published: 19 October 2000
...0 19 10 2000 DICTIONARIES have always been shaped by the needs of their users, or at least by what lexicographers knew, or imagined, of those needs, and by what lexicographers knew about language in general and about words in particular; not only by what the users wanted, but also by what...
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Published: 01 January 1988
...This chapter describes the following: Orsodakne, Prasokouris, Knips and Sknips, Skolex tes chionos, Pyrigonos, Myrmekoleon/ Formicoleon, Serphos, Psylla/Pulex, Phtheir, Vermis caeruleus, Skolex leukos, Calba, Rauca, Biurus, Phryganion, names listed by Greek lexicographers, and names listed...
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The Dictionary Of Chinese Characters And Terms – The Inception Of Etymological Dictionaries In China
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Heming Yong and Jing Peng
Published: 14 August 2008
...0 14 08 2008 IN the western world, the practice of providing etymological information in a dictionary started in the middle of the seventeenth century when Thomas Blount published Glossographia in 1656. Blount is one of the earliest lexicographers who attempted to provide...
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Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography
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Kenneth W Church and Patrick Hanks
Published: 24 January 2008
... linguists in compiling lexicons of lexico-syntactic facts, and (e) enhancing the productivity of lexicographers in identifying normal and conventional usage. lexicographers statistical significantly structures running This content is only available as a PDF. ...
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Courage, Bravery, Recklessness
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Anna Wierzbicka
Published: 22 October 1992
... in defining concepts of this kind. Despite all the efforts of philosophers and of lexicographers, dictionaries still content themselves to say, in essence, that courageous means brave and that brave means courageous . philosophers astonishing...
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Pictures, words, and numbers: sorting and indexing
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Duncan Davies and others
Published: 15 November 1990
...0 15 11 1990 We must now face c1n unsolved problem of fundamental importance and great difficulty: the sorting and indexing of pictures. To understand the situation we must spend a little time examining how lexicographers, librnrians. and scholars sort words, how accountants. scientists...
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The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Peter Gilliver
Published online: 22 September 2016
Published in print: 25 August 2016
...For Robin, sine quo non Pr e fac e The Making of the O.E.D. would be a good subject for a book in due course by some retired lexicographer.1 There are already numerous histories of the Oxford English Dictionary; indeed, such accounts began to be written long before the first edition...
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