[Lexicog] Fwd: definitions

[Patrick Hanks]

Dear Karolina and friend, 

The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition ("ELL2"; 2005; editor Keith Brown; publisher Elsevier; 16 volumes) contains several articles which you may find useful, 
including in particular:

"Definition" by Patrick Hanks
"Dictionaries and Encyclopedias" by Keith Allen
"Learners' Dictionaries" by Michael Rundell
"Lexicography: Overview" by Patrick Hanks
"English Lexicography" by Patrick Hanks
"Bilingual Lexicography" by Marie-Helene Correard
"Corpus-based lexicography" by Ramesh Krishnamurthy 
"Polish lexicography", by Tadeusz Piotrowski. 

There is an article by me in Sinclair, J. (ed., 1987) "Looking Up!"  (a book about the
Cobuild project), on the subject of "Definitions and Explanations". You may find that 
useful, too.

Best wishes for your MA project -- 

Patrick Hanks



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Leman 
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  Cc: Kryspowicka Karolina 
  Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:03 PM
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Kryspowicka Karolina" <karolina_kryspowicka at yahoo.co.uk>
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  Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:14 AM
  Subject: definitions

  Dear all,

  I am looking for any information concerning any
  studies or resources about what is the natural way of
  defining nouns, verbs and adjectives. 

  Together with my friend, we are going to write our MA
  thesis about Poles' natural ways of defining those
  grammatical categories. We then want to check whether
  definitions used in monolingual EFL dictionaries may
  be really helpful and user-friendly for Poles.

  I would be very grateful for your help.

  Karolina Kryspowicka



   
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