Reviews the historical development of the "Ozegov" dictionary. This dictionary blazed a trail in describing the structure and lexicon of modern standard Russian and played a key role in completing the standardization of Russian. The 1992 edition has progressed in coping with changes in the lexicon of Russia brought about by political,…

Describes an adequate collocational dictionary for learners of Russian. Recommendations are made regarding what should and should not be included in a collocational dictionary, and a discussion looks at under which headwords collocations should be entered in the dictionary. (44 references) (GLR)

More than 60,000 words and over 100,000 phrases and idioms are compiled in this dictionary of Serbo-Croatian based upon the vocabulary used by educated Yugoslavs and the daily press. The lexicon lists both Ekavian (Eastern) and Kekavian (Western) forms, giving illustrative phrases in the Eastern variant, and glosses in American English. Main…

Describes the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English and demonstrates its usefulness for advanced learners of English by administering a monolingual completion test, first without a dictionary and then with the BBI, to Hungarian and Russian English teachers. Both groups' scores improved dramatically on the posttest. (LMO)