Systematic Lexicography

by Juri Apresjan, Kevin Windle

Overview

Juri Apresjan unites theoretical linguistics and lexicography to produce a series of dazzling insights into lexical analysis. It will be of interest to lexicologists, lexicographers, students of linguistic pragmatics, and teachers of semantics at all university levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198237808
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2000
Series:	Oxford Linguistics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Professor Ju. Apresjan is Head of the Department of Theoretical Semantics, Russian Language Institute, RAS, and Principal Researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS.

Dr Kevin Windle is Reader in the Department of Classical and Modern European Languages, Australian National University.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Problems of SynonymyChapter 1: English Synonyms and a Dictionary of SynonymsChapter 2: Types of Information in a Dictionary of SynonymsChapter 3: The Picture of Man as Reflected in Linguistic Data: An attempt at a systematic descriptionChapter 4: The Synonymy of Mental Predicates: schitat' [to consider] and its synonymsChapter 5: The Problem of Factivity: znat' [to know] and its synonymsChapter 6: Khotet' [to want] and its synonyms: Notes about wordsPart II: Systematic LexicographyChapter 7: Metaphor in the Semantic Representation of EmotionsChapter 8: On the Language of Explications and Semantic PrimitivesChapter 9: Lexicographic Portraits, A Case Study of the Verb byt' [to be]Chapter 10: A Lexicographic Portrait of the Verb vyiti [to emerge, come out]References