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Peer reviewedFradin, Bernard; Marandin, Jean-Marie – Langue Francaise, 1979
Examines the lexicographic definition as an informal analysis of the meanings of words. (AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Lexicography, Nouns
Peer reviewedCreswell, Thomas J. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1977
An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedAitken, A. J. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. Comments are based on the compiling of A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue''. Paper presented at the Table Ronde de Lexicographie Historique, Florence, Italy, May 4, 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, Editing
PDF pending restorationWang, Fred Fangyu – 1971
This dictionary is a companion volume to the "Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English)" published in 1967 by Seton Hall University. The purpose of the dictionary is to help English-speaking students produce Chinese sentences in certain cultural situations by looking up the English expressions. Natural, spoken Chinese expressions within the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Definitions, Dictionaries, English
Download full textHershberger, Henry D., Comp.; Hershberger, Ruth, Comp. – 1986
The Kuku-Yalanji language is spoken by 500-600 Australian Aboriginal people on the coast of southeastern Cape York and inland to Chillagoe. The dictionary is of the northern dialects of Kuku-Nyungkul, the Rossville/Shipton's Flats dialect, Kuku-Yalanji, the China Camp/Daintree dialect, and Kuku-Jalunji, the Bloomfield dialect. It has three…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adjectives, Classification, Creoles
