Lexicography

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This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories.

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology.

This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions.

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.

This book focuses on information literacy for the younger generation of learners and library readers.

Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail.

How does a person learn a second language?

This book is the first English monograph to systematically explore Chinese Multiword expressions (MWEs) by applying corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches.

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

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This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners' awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners' contextual lexical inferencing competence (CLIC).

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions.

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey's Lexical Priming - A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world.

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years.

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus synchroner und diachroner Perspektive mit Reanalyse-Prozessen, die unter dem Schlagwort sprachliche Remotivierung zusammengefasst werden können.

This book offers a unique perspective on creativity in an educational environment where there is a relative dearth of literature on this subject.

This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings.

How can insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) be applied to foreign language learning (FLL) and foreign language teaching (FLT)?

Von 1993 bis 2007 sind die vier Bände des "Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français de l'Océan Indien" erschienen (DECOI, Kreolische Bibliothek 12), das mit dem "Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français d'Amérique" (DECA) fortgesetzt bzw.

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This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

This book presents a systematic and relatively comprehensive account of the system of MODALITY in Modern Chinese and the functions that realizations of modality serve in the clause and clause complex.

This book is the first English monograph to systematically explore Chinese Multiword expressions (MWEs) by applying corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches.

This book focuses on information literacy for the younger generation of learners and library readers.

This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: “Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?