Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries

[Arnold Zwicky]

a question from from a colleague.  suggestions i can pass on?

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> Subject: Fwd: Research idea - dictionaries
> Date: July 31, 2012 3:49:12 PM PDT
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> This brilliant doctoral student ... just wrote me with a quick question (see below)---any ideas?
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> Do you know of any good critical studies of dictionaries? Dictionaries as prescribing/ascribing vs. describing? 
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> I think I have a seed of a research idea, still trying to formulate...

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