Lexicographic Description of English

Lexicographic Description of English
Author: Morton Benson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230145

Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British English and offers a trailblazing solution to the vexing problem of how to treat General American and British RP pronunciation in the same dictionary with the help of a Simplified Transcription for which any typewriter keyboard can be adapted and a pioneering description of the principles concerning the treatment of fixed grammatical and lexical collocations in future general-purpose dictionaries of English.

Dictionnaires

Dictionnaires
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1058
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110124217

Forgotten But Important Lexicographers: John Wilkins and William Lloyd

Forgotten But Important Lexicographers: John Wilkins and William Lloyd
Author: Fredric Dolezal
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111340635

Lexiographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

A Bibliography of English Etymology

A Bibliography of English Etymology
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 975
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0816667721

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language. A Bibliography of English Etymology is a broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word's etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin's primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign antonyms, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0415168635

Vocabulary has been one of the growth areas of language study over the past three decades. In the second edition of this definitive study, Ronald Carter updates progress in key areas of language description and applied linguistics. This new edition includes new material on the relationship between vocabulary, grammar and discourse and the implications of new insights into vocabulary for the study of speech and writing in English. It also has updated chapters on vocabulary and language teaching, dictionaries and lexicography, and the literary study of vocabulary.Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives has been widely praised since first publication for the breadth, depth and clarity of its approach. This new edition builds upon these foundations and develops further understanding of this key area of applied linguistics.

English monolingual learners' dictionaries

English monolingual learners' dictionaries
Author: John D. Battenburg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111340627

Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples

Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples
Author: Kusujiro Miyoshi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2008-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3484970936

This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.

Canadiana

Canadiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1981
Genre: Canada
ISBN: