Knowing the origin of a language helps us to determine the historical background of that language. As language itself is such a system of a society that is continuously evolving as that aforementioned society learns and technologically develops along with its roots or origins. Like many other languages, English is also a language that has roots or…

Computational tools and resources play an important role for vocabulary acquisition. Although a large variety of dictionaries and learning games are available, few resources provide information about the complexity of a word, either for learning or for comprehension. The idea here is to use frequency counts combined with intralexical variables to…

The educational experience related over the following pages is the result of several research projects undertaken after an evaluation of the vocabulary size of final year English philology students at the University of Granada (Spain), who were found to have a significant deficiency in their lexical competence. In view of the results obtained,…

This article, an attempt to "systematize a general theory of lexical correlations and to define and illustrate their categories, is designed to "assist translators, linguists, teachers, writers, learners and all students of language and languages. (FWB)

Discusses the problem of dictionaries' treatment of phrasal verbs and their companions, verbs plus prepositions. (AM)

About 135 references are listed concerning lexicography, translation, semantics, and dictionaries. (AM)

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)

Discusses the historical method in lexicography, the general characteristics of library terminology, and the current state of library lexicography. Presents a glossary which lists quotations supplementing the coverage of library-related vocabulary in the "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED) and the "Dictionary of Americanisms"…

A discussions of the problem of discriminating the different senses of a polysemous word in bilingual dictionaries, and some suggestions on how a dictionary should cope with it. (CK)

The first paper, "The Language of Term Relation Designations in Subject Access Vocabularies," contains a set of tables comparing certain features of ten thesauri and subject authority lists. The purpose of this essay is to present a kind of analysis that may have value in clarifying the language and structure of subject access vocabularies with a…

The draft includes--(1) comments on file structure, (2) descriptions of dictionary organization and format, (3) alphabetical lists of elements, and (4) facilities related elements in dictionary form. The data element definitions in this draft are compatible with the Higher Education Facilities Classification and Inventory Procedures Manual, which…

Refers to the dictionaries of the Spanish Royal Academy. (SK)

List of words which the Spanish Royal Academy examined during February 1972. (SK)