Lexicography

The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I...

Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translato...

This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential facts of dictionaries in general. It includes information on the origin of English dicti...

Multi-word verbs are an essential topic for the English language syllabus. As a characteristic feature of the language with numerous semantic and s...

The book takes its cue from the topics of PhrasaLex, a workshop dedicated to phraseological approaches to learners lexicography which took place f...

This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative ap...

If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are...

This book provides an examination of the academic language found in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) primary-school written input, w...

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in E...

The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology draws on nearly 7,000 published MLB game summaries to explore the contours of ba...

Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached a...

This book is a current and comprehensive study that incorporates constructional frameworks to inquire grammatical metaphor of modality (MM) for mor...

Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual En...

This publication examines the complex phenomenon of language contact in its various facets, both for its subject matter and for the variety of inte...

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure throug...

Foreign language learners often use electronic dictionaries or other information from the Internet to solve language problems. However, they seem ...

The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, ...

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite...

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrase...

A handy, affordable Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian dictionary for everyday use, including a guide to common everyday expressions in ...

When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. ...

The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective. It encompasses a wide range of theoretical and practic...

This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignác Kúnosduring World War I, specifi...

This book provides a start of defining the uni- and multi-phonational tone systems of geographically-connected dialects under a phonation-pitch ton...

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