Section outline

    • Lecture presentation File
    • Reading assignment: lesson 6 Folder

      (A short summary + a study)

      Lindquist, H. (2009). Looking for lexis. In Corpus Lingustics and the Description of English (pp. 51-57). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

      Alsina, V. & DeCesaris, J. (2002). Bilingual lexicography, overlapping polysemy, and corpus use. In Bengt Altenberg & Sylviane Granger, Lexis in Contrast (pp. 215-229), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

    • Reading assignment: discussion

      •What does a corpus lexicographer do to extract a meaning of a word from a corpus?
      •How is a dictionary headword usually organized?
      •How can the individual meanings of a word (or senses) be ordered in a dictionary?
      •What belongs and what does not belong to a collocation dictionary?
      •What is semantic prosody and can you think of an example in your mother tongue?
      •How can monolingual dictionaries be useful in bilingual lexicography?