This paper describes a software system intended to help students learn about the process of tagging, the assignment of part-of-speech labels, which is basic to computational linguistics. It does this by (a) making it transparent why words have been analysed in a particular way, and (b) making it straightforward to add items to the system's lexicon…

John McHardy Sinclair has made major contributions to applied linguistics in three related areas: language in education, discourse analysis, and corpus-assisted lexicography. This article discusses the far-reaching implications for language description of this third area. The corpus-assisted search methodology provides empirical evidence for an…

Among the multifarious linguistic resources currently available on the Internet, learners of English as a foreign language, as well as teachers and translators, can effortlessly access a vast variety of electronic dictionaries well suited to a multiplicity of lookup operations. A particular kind of lexicographical work on the Web is the…

A word, even when considered monosemic, generally has a cluster of meanings, depending on the mental representation of the referent by the speaker/writer or listener/reader. The variation is even more noticeable across cultures. This paper investigates the different ways in which cultural knowledge helps in the interpretation of English lexical…

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,…

An editor for Merriam-Webster relates etymological anecdotes. (SP)

BASIC PROBLEMS IN THE COMPOSITION OF BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES WERE DISCUSSED, INCLUDING (1) DETERMINING USER-GROUPS FOR WHOM A DICTIONARY IS INTENDED, (2) INDICATING MULTIPLE SEMANTIC MEANINGS, AND (3) COMPILING A DICTIONARY FOR USER-GROUPS WHO AIM AT EXPRESSING THEMSELVES IN A LANGUAGE AS WELL AS COMPREHENDING IT. FURTHER DISCUSSIONS DEALT WITH…

LABELING TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING LEXICOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS IN NATIONAL AND REGIONAL USE OF WORDS WERE DISCUSSED. THE REPORT SUGGESTS THAT TECHNIQUES ARE NECESSARY, FOR EXAMPLE, TO DISTINGUISH VARIATIONS AMONG THE ENGLISH DIALECTS OF ENGLAND, AMERICA, CANADA, SCOTLAND, AUSTRALIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA. THIS REPORT IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 13 PAPERS…

DISCUSSION TOPICS AND CONFEREE OPINIONS OF A LEXICOGRAPHY CONFERENCE HELD AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION IN 1960 ARE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED IN THIS DOCUMENT. THE REPORT IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 13 PAPERS RESULTING FROM THE CONFERENCE. (JH)

A SET OF BROAD CLASSIFICATORY CRITERIA WAS PRESENTED FOR USE IN LEXICOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH. THESE CRITERIA CONSISTED OF FUNDAMENTALS FOR CLASSIFYING MATERIAL BY RANGE, PERSPECTIVE, AND PRESENTATION. THIS REPORT IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 13 PAPERS PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE ON LEXICOGRAPHY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 11-12, 1960. (JH)

THIS PAPER DISCUSSED THE NEED TO INCREASE THE SCOPE OF PRESENT DICTIONARIES TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION WHICH WOULD INCLUDE A GRAMMATICAL STATEMENT AND A CONTENT DESCRIPTION AS WELL AS INFORMATION PRESENTLY PROVIDED. THE INVESTIGATOR FELT (1) THAT DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMATICAL STATEMENTS CAN PROFITABLY BE DESIGNED AS PART OF A…

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,…

Suggests that the Royal Spanish Academy change the definition of "neblina" in the next edition of the "Dictionary of the Spanish Language" to "niebla ligera" or "light fog," and cites literary usage in support. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

CEBUANO-BISAYAN (VISAYAN) IS SPOKEN IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES AND IS THE LANGUAGE WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF NATIVE SPEAKERS IN THE PHILIPPINES. THERE IS NO ADEQUATE DICTIONARY FOR THIS LANGUAGE, AND THIS PROJECT HAS PROVIDED A CARD FILE ON THE BASIS OF WHICH A DICTIONARY MAY BE PREPARED. AN ADEQUATE DICTIONARY OF CEBUANO NEEDS TO…