Lexicography

Este libro recoge por vez primera el léxico chipaya en forma sistemática, lengua vigente aún en Santa Ana de Chipaya (Bolivia), aunque históricamente localizada a lo largo del eje acuático Titicaca-Poopó.

In the literature on English lexicography there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries that have been around for many years in English-speaking countries.

La relación ancestral que existe entre las plantas y la especie humana ha permitido que el vocabulario que designa a los miembros del reino vegetal sea uno de los más extensos, variables y creativos en la lengua española panhispánica.

Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change.

All humans are equipped with perceptual and articulatory mechanisms which (in healthy humans) allow them to learn to perceive and produce speech.

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias.

Since about 4000 years ago, lexicography has been a component of all cultures in which script was known.

Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography.

The purpose of this book is to conceptualise the research on dictionary use within a more general overview of language learning.

Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer.

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

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

English Nouns explores the mechanisms by which English nominalizations come to have a variety of readings depending on their syntactic context.

Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.