Index
A
- allowable
- words
179, 181, 190, 191, 198, 202, 203, 204, 208, 248
- ambiguity
19, 65, 68, 76, 115, 116
-
American Heritage Word Frequency Book
48
- analytical definition
91, 92, 179, 211
B
- Basic English
29, 31, 32, 49, 50, 62, 63, 69, 85
- British National Corpus
43, 50, 52, 58, 60, 61, 72, 73, 124, 131, 142, 145, 187
C
- Cambridge English Lexicon.
49
- Cambridge International Corpus.
52
- collocational range
72, 73
- Common Core Vocabulary
56, 128, 164, 165
- comprehensibility (of definitions)
118, 119, 169, 201, 216
- computer (in dictionary compilation)
112, 198, 213
- controlled language
29, 62, 63, 65
- core defining vocabulary
128, 131, 163, 249
- core meaning.
56, 75, 78, 101
- core vocabulary
56, 69, 70, 71, 74, 82
- culture-specific words
163, 175
D
-
definiendum
90, 91, 92, 140
- what is a definition?
90, 92
- digital dictionaries
213, 214
F
- Faucett, Lawrence
15, 16, 17, 33, 34, 39, 59, 164
- full-sentence definition
4, 91, 140, 196
G
- General Service List
22, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 69, 70, 112, 114, 164, 166, 249
- grammar-translation method.
104
-
Grammar of English Words
22
H
- Horn, Ernest .
15, 16, 18, 28, 34, 48
- Hornby, A.S
2, 21, 23, 34, 89, 100
I
- Interim Report
16, 21, 22, 34, 38, 39
- international words
31, 166
L
- lemma.
55, 56, 57, 58, 175
- lexeme
55, 59, 87, 158, 167
- lexical simplicity (of definitions)
137
- lexical unit
20, 36, 57, 91
- LOB corpus
50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 60, 61
M
- machine translation
62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 87
- Maki, Itsu.
15, 16, 34, 59, 164
- minimum adequate vocabulary.
24
N
- Natural Semantic Metalanguage
47, 78, 82
- New Academic Vocabulary List
57
- New General Service List
58
-
New Method Readers.
23, 25
O
- Ogden, Charles K.
21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 63
- opaque
- combinations of words
177
- phrasal verbs.
167, 180, 217
P
- Palmer , Harold
17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 59, 74, 107
- plain English
93, 102, 104
- Plain English Campaign
103
- precision (of definitions)
83, 102, 185, 199, 221
- primitive-based dictionary
82
R
- range
7, 14, 27, 35, 42, 43, 53, 57, 124, 143
- receptive vocabulary load
7, 132, 134, 135, 145, 148, 149, 153, 168, 169, 171, 216, 220, 227, 228, 233, 234, 236, 237, 241, 245, 247, 248, 250
- restricted collocation
116
S
-
Semantic Count of English Words
38
- sense (in a dictionary entry)
36, 38, 50, 73, 75, 76, 77, 89
-
Six Thousand Common English Words
13, 69
- synonym definition
90, 91, 92, 134, 174, 221, 229, 242, 244, 245
T
-
Teacher’s Word Book.
14, 15, 21
- text coverage
53, 60, 61, 144, 145, 148
- Thorndike, Edward L.
7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 34, 38, 48, 50, 54, 69
-
Thousand-Word English.
21, 22
- Threshold Level English.
48, 59
U
- University Word List
53, 54
W
- West , Michael
1, 2, 3, 15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 47, 58, 59, 72, 74, 89, 104, 105, 106, 107, 112, 113, 114, 117, 134, 164, 169, 215, 217, 247, 248
- word class (in a defining vocabulary)
41, 173
- word family
21, 36, 37, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 124, 131, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 152, 153, 164, 168, 169, 186, 204, 205, 220, 241, 247, 248, 250
- word sense disambiguation
76, 77
- wordform.
17, 55, 58, 59, 143, 158