Table of contents
Forewordvii
I. General Foundations and a Historical Perspective
Metaphysics of the dictionary versus the lexicon3
Vocabulary acquisition and the mental lexicon21
Evidence and intuition in lexicography31
Definitional semantics: its evolution in French lexicography43
The Dictionary of Justus Georg Schottelius or ‘generativism’ in a 17th-century grammar?!57
II. Word Formation and Syntax
The interaction of semantic and formal structures in the lexicon75
Oppositeness of meaning, word formation, and lexicography: the English prefix un-93
An example of interaction between syntax and semantics113
Semantic regularities in dictionaries123
III. Semantics and Pragmatics
The axiological aspect of idealized cognitive models135
A cognitive approach to spatial terms represented by ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’ in English and their metaphorical extensions167
Meaning, synonymy, and the dictionary181
Dynamics in meaning as a problem for bilingual lexicography209
Functional grammar and lexematics in lexicography227
Metalinguistic behaviour and language study255
The Meaning-Text Model of language and practical lexicography277
Translation-specific lexical items and their representation in the dictionary287
IV. Diachrony
Semantic approaches to an historical thesaurus303
Some problems of Indo-European lexicography315
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