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.
Thevolumes focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.
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 aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.
Contents: I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries:
historical background - assessment of specific features - the perspective of
the user: Anthony P. Cowie, Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a
theoretical perspective. - Flor Aarts, Syntactic information in OALD5,
LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. - Michael Klotz, Word complementation in English
learners' dictionaries: A quantitive study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and
OALD5. - Gabriele Stein, Exemplification in EFL dictionaries. - Robert F.
Ilson, The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries - and others. -
Henri Béjoint, Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries. - Brigitta Mittmann,
The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. - Paul
Bogaards, Access structures of learners' dictionaries. - Kerstin Popp,
Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. -
David Heath, The treatment of international varieties. - John Ayto, Lexical
evolution and learners' dictionaries. - Klaus-Dieter Barnickel, Political
correctness in learners' dictionaries. - André Moulin, The Advanced Learners'
Dictionary: syntax cum semantics. - Gisela Böhner, Classroom experience with
the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE. - Burkhard Dammann,
Teacher's demands on learners' dictionaries. - II. Learners' dictionaries -
other dictionaries: Franz-Josef Hausmann, Semiotaxis and learners'
dictionaries. - Jonathan Crowther, Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries. -
Dieter Götz, On some differences between English and German (with respect to
lexicography). - Thomas Herbst, The English Valency Dictionary: linguistic
theory and user-friendliness. - III. Dictionaries - corpora - perspectives:
Della Summers, Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners'
dictionaries, especially the »Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English«. -
Rosamund Moon, Needless and haystacks, idioms and corpora: gaining insight
into idioms, using corpus analysis. - Jan Svartvik, Corpora and dictionaries.
- Geoffrey Leech/Hillary Nessi, Moving towards perfection: the learners'
(electronic) dictionary of the future.