英语词典编纂.ppt

6. Planning the Dictionary In this chapter, we discuss what the dictionary will contain. 6.1 Preliminaries 6.2 Types of lexical item 6.3 The constituent parts of a dictionary 6.4 Building the headword list 6.5 Organizing the headword list 6.6 Types of entry 6.1 Preliminaries Some basic terms and concepts Headword list is a list of the words that are the headwords of entries in the dictionary. Lemma denotes a word belonging to a particular word class. e.g. the two lemmas of play: play (noun); play (verb) Lexical units (LU) are the various senses a lemma has. LUs are the core building blocks of dictionary entries. 6.2 Types of lexical item A ‘lexical item’ is any word, abbreviation, partial word, or phrase which can figure in a dictionary (often as the headword of an entry) as the ‘target’ of some form of lexicographic description, most commonly a definition or a translation. 6.2.1 Single items 1. Single items: simple words, various kinds of abbreviation, and partial words. lexical words simple words (common words) grammatical words( function) alphabetisms e.g. BBC Single items abbreviations and acronyms e.g. NATO contractions contractions e.g. don’t bound affixes e.g. im-, -ment partial words productive affixes e.g. ex-,anti- combining forms e.g. flat-lifted 6.2.2 Multiword expressions Multiword expressions( MWEs) The term covers all the different types of phrases that have some degree of idiomatic meaning or behavior. MWEs are a central part of the vocabulary of most languages, and need to be accounted for in the dictionary. They are par