the craft of lexicography -- sense distinctions

[Nichols, Wendalyn]

I would also recommend contacting Dr. Adam Kilgarriff whose doctoral
research was on polysemy.  His e-mail at the U. of Brighton's IT Resarch
Institute is adam.kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk

Wendalyn Nichols



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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis R. Preston [mailto:preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:40 PM
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Subject: Re: the craft of lexicography -- sense distinctions


It is a very large part of Ladislaw Zgusta's Manual of Lexicography,
Mouton, 196?.

dInIs



>>>From LINGUIST List #11-885
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>
> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 06:36:37 -0400 (EDT)
> From: creider <creider at julian.uwo.ca>
>
>I would be grateful for references to any discussion of the art of
>making sense distinctions in the writing of dictionaries.  I believe
>that James Murray, the 19th century editor of the OED, wrote that this
>was one of the most time-consuming and difficult parts of the process
>of creating an entry for a word.  There is some discussion of the topic
>in John Chadwick's _Lexicographica Graeca_, but, surprisingly, none
>in Sidney Landau's _Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography_.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Chet Creider
><creider at julian.uwo.ca>


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