The way I understand it, there is a very big difference between a dictionary and a lexicon. A
dictionary is a book that white-collar workers keep on their desks and that is second in …

This paper isa brief discussio nof some possible point s of contact between the practical
dictionary (hereafte r referre d to as the'dictionary') and the theoretical lexico n (referre d to …

I was first attracted to the history of lexicography while undertaking a linguistic analysis of
John Wilkins' Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668); the …

The title of a paper by Jim McCawley (nd) puts the main theme of my paper in a nutshell. His
paper is called'What linguists might contribute to dictionarymaking if they could get their act …

Paraphrasing Aronoff (1983), one could claim that the period 1975-1985 was" a decade of
the lexicon." A great resurgence of interest in various aspects of human lexical abilities …

The apparent objectivity of dictionaries rests on an extensive series of subjective editorial
decisions. In the seventeenth century, when the aim of dictionaries of English shifted from …

I was surprised several years ago while looking through an American magazine for Christian
families, to come upon an advertisement for Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the …

One does not expect to find in a ictionary a compendium of everything that is known about
horses: if one did, the entry for 'horse'alone would be considerably longer than an entire …

At is an exhilarating time for lexicography. Issues raised over 200 years ago by Samuel
Johnson are at last being debated. A resurgence of empiricism in linguistics and a …

Every age has its hang-ups. Wait a minute... hang-upsi Do I really mean that? Is hang-up the
right word? What does it mean, anyway? Does it fit the context? Perhaps a dictionary would …