Systematic Lexicography

Name: Systematic Lexicography
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ISBN: 9780199554256

ISBN-10: 0199554250

ISBN-13: 9780199554256

Edition: 2008

Authors: Juri Derenick Apresjan, Kevin Windle

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This book unites lexicography with theoretical linguistics. The two fields tend to ignore each other: lexicographers produce dictionaries, linguists grammars. As a result grammars and dictionaries are often discordant and sometimes glaringly incompatible. In Systematic Lexicography Juri Apresjan shows the insights linguistics has to offer lexicography, and equally that the achievements and challenges of lexicography provide a rewarding field for linguistic inquiry. The author presents the vocabulary of a language as a complicated system reflecting a specific view of the world. He does so within an integrated theory of language, in which grammatical and lexical meanings, and the…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Problems of Synonymy



English Synonyms and a Dictionary of Synonyms



Types of Information in a Dictionary of Synonyms



The Picture of Man as Reconstructed from Linguistic Data: An Attempt at a Systematic Description



The Synonymy of Mental Predicates: schitat' [to consider] and its Synonyms



The Problem of Factivity: znat' [to know] and its Synonyms



Khotet' [to want] and its Synonyms: Notes about Words



Systematic Lexicography



Metaphor in the Semantic Representation of Emotions



On the Language of Explications and Semantic Primitives



Lexicographic Portraits (A Case Study of the Verb byt' [to be]



A Lexicographic Portrait of the Verb vyiti [to emerge, come out]


References


Index of English


Lexemes Index of Russian


Lexemes Subject Index


Index of Names