How to make a dictionary (Thursday 8-10)

Dafydd Gibbon
jointly with Konrad Sprengel

August 1999 (Modified 11. November 1999 )

Further information will be added incrementally throughout the term.

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• Organisation
• 1: Overview
  • Goals and structure of the course
  • Background to lexicography
  • Additional lecture notes on lexicology and lexicography
  • Lexical databases
  • Hierarchical lexica
  • Practice in lexicography
  • Beginners: Analysis of lexica on the web: macrostructures and microstructures
  • Points for discussion and self-evaluation
• 2: Dictionaries - tools or theories?
• 3: Dictionary microstructure: types of information
• 4: Surface information: orthography and pronunciation
• 5: Meaning information: semantics and pragmatics
• 6: Grammatical information: morphology
• 7: Grammatical information: syntax
• 8: Idiom dictionaries
• 9: Extracting lexical information from texts
• 10: Project: a dictionary database
• Semesterapparat
• Further reference materials