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Record-breaking attendance marked the American Dialect Society’s 2011 Word of the Year proceedings, held at the annual meeting of the ADS in Portland, Oregon, January 5–7, 2012. It was also one of the rare times in the 22-year history of... more
Русско-английский словарь-дневник* Ричарда Джемса (1618—1619 гг.) — важный источник сведений о русском разговорном языке города Холмогор и порта св. Архангела (г. Архангельска), а также и об английском научном и обиходном языке... more
Nazarii A. Nazarov. The Ukrainian etymological lexicography: theory, history, and practice. – Manuscript. Dissertation for obtaining the scientific degree of candidate of philology, specialty 10.02.01 – the Ukrainian language. – Kyiv... more
The third volume of the “Intercontinental Dialogue on Phraseology” series is a continuation of the project, which was inspired by the symposium "Phraseology 2009" organised by Professor Katsumasa Yagi at Kwansei Gakuin University in... more
Sözlükbilimi teriminin yorumlanması söz konusu olduğunda terimin yapısı, genişliği ve kapsamıyla ilgili pek çok görüş ortaya çıkmaktadır. Yaygın görüşe göre sözlükbilimin, uygulamalı sözlükbilimi (practical lexicography) ve sözlükbilimsel... more
This paper deals with Finnish lexical loans in modern English relating them to external history and cultural history of Finland. Chronologically the study starts all the way back in the (prehistoric) Old English period and moves on from... more
W artykule przedstawiono wyniki szczegółowej cząstkowej analizy terminograficznej słowników specjalistycznych z terminologią angielską i polską wydanych w Polsce w latach 1945-2013. Analiza została przeprowadzona pod kątem wybranych... more
This metalexicographic study examines the relationship between the proverbial material in The English-Irish Dictionary (1732) of Begley and McCurtin, Abel Boyer’s The Royal Dictionary (First edition 1699, second edition 1729), and... more
Only Polish words from Marcin Paszkowski’s “Dictionary” have been published up to now while their Turkish equivalents have never been edited although two scholars (Ananiasz Zajączkowski 1938 and Stanisław Stachowski 1989) intended to do... more
The book aims to develop a model for an English-Polish systematic dictionary of chemical terminology, a dictionary that focuses on representing the terminology of chemistry as a network of interrelated terms. The model is intended to... more
RESUMEN En un período de seis meses en 2004 y 2005, la publicación electrónica de diccionarios de lengua fran-cesa ha conocido una renovación importante con la publicación del Grand Robert électronique en mayo de 2005 y la primera... more
This article discusses the performative function of enumeration in Arabic prose. Bringing together a great variety of word lists from classical to modern prose (including the 1001 Nights, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Suyūṭī, al-Shidyāq, and Darwīsh),... more
The Internet has launched the transformation of lexicographic tools and such evolution has only just started. The key to future progress in this field may hinge upon four essential concepts — collaborative lexicography, access to all... more
Here we continue our consideration of the nominees in the 2012 Word of the Year proceedings at the American Dialect Society’s annual meeting held in Boston on January 3–5, 2013.
This is the second of a two-part excursion into the fragmented world of twenty-first-century popular music genres and subgenres.
Though the “genrefication” of contemporary popular music is nothing new, there is no question that the music industry has in recent years seen a rapid proliferation of niche genres and subgenres. With that proliferation has come a... more
South Siberian material makes up about a quarter of Wilhelm Radloff’s Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte, making the dictionary by far the richest source for 19th century Siberian Turkic. The paper examines three aspects of this... more
At first glance, Johnson and the American common reader is hardly a promising topic. Few figures in the history of English letters were more consistently and vociferously anti-American than Samuel Johnson. It was not just the authority of... more
In this, his first book, Henry Hitchings has accomplished what might seem impossible: an erudite but lively and engaging account of the writing of a dictionary.
The Internet has launched the transformation of lexicographic tools and such evolution has only just started. The key to future progress in this field may hinge upon four essential concepts — better exploitation of the electronic medium,... more
The presidential election cycle guarantees a quadrennial infusion of new items into the political lexicon, and the overheated campaign rhetoric of 2012 did not disappoint on this score.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of “Among the New Words”: Dwight L. Bolinger brought the feature to the pages of American Speech in 1941, after previously writing the new-word column “The Living Language” for the Los Angeles-based... more
The paper presents preliminary results of a pilot study whose aim was to evaluate the usefulness of widely-available free online dictionaries to translators. In particular, the investigation looked into the effectiveness of terminology... more
The study of phonology and morphed-soundshifts in both Æthiopic and Old Ænglisc remains incomplete. The present research focuses chiefly on morphed-soundshift or velarization and the epenthetic nasal or /n/ (ን). This velarization... more
Les terminologues s'entendent sur un certain nombre de règles quant à la rédaction de définitions. Toutefois, celles-ci sont souvent formulées comme des principes généraux servant à guider informellement le terminologue. L'absence de... more
The online dictionary of contemporary Dutch, which is compiled at the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) in Leiden (http://inl.nl), has progressed to a point where decisions will soon have to be made for a sustainable future of the... more
The Old English (OE) adjective fāh-a word bearing a complex semantic profile and appearing in both poetic and non-poetic genres-has recently come under scrutiny. Filip Missuno argues that although fāh is usually listed in lexical aids as... more
This article analyzes some of the lexical semantic features of Barunga Kriol, an Australian creole language (Northern Territory, Australia), in comparison with Dalabon, one of the Australian Aboriginal languages replaced by Barunga Kriol.... more
A brief overview of the dictionary. It is also an app by Webonary. org.
ABSTRACT: Guidance in language use is an inherent aspect of language learning. Nonetheless, English linguistics has not paid attention to this dimension. Paradoxically, English learner's dictionaries are characterized by offering evident... more
Prof. Considine is discussing hoser, 2-4 (tray, flate, case (of beer), parkade, parking stall, eh, The Great One, Edmonchuck, Cowtown, kitty-corner, bear claw, all-dressed, chesterfield, toque.
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In this paper, I examine the Old English word scytel, which appears in the Old English Medicina de quadrupedibus. I argue that, contrary to definitions offered in current Old English lexical aids, scytel does not mean 'dung', but rather... more
Here is the first piece of media coverage on DCHP-2. Michael Valpy published this nice piece in the Globe and Mail, 10 March 2017, one week before DCHP-2 was released at www.dchp.ca/dchp2.
A paper about construction of definitions in Monolingual Dictionaries