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The proceedings cover new perspectives in the field of lexicography, including both theoretical and practical topics, and new aspects of special and bilingual dictionaries. The volume also includes contributions dealing with corpus-based dictionaries, neologisms, valency, collocations, equivalents semantics, grammar, etymology, vocabulary, homonymy, euphemisms, the history of lexicography, and the techniques of computerized dictionary production.
Contents: Gabriele Stein, The Otto Jespersen Memorial Lecture. John Palsgrave as Precursor of Otto Jespersen. - Ladislav Zgusta, Some Developments in Lexicography, Past and Present. - Andrejs Veisbergs, Latvian Bilingual Lexicography. Tradition and Change. - Elena Bárcena/Tim Read, The Architecture of a Cognitive-based Multilingual Computational Dictionary. - Matthias Kammerer, Kritisches zu Schnelles Applizierung einer >Logischen Semantik< bei Wörterbüchern vom COBUILD-Typ. - Jorgen Erik Nielsen, Otto Jespersen as a Lexicographer. - Dorthe Duncker/Hanne Ruus, Multi Level Text Representation in an LCB. - Rufus H. Gouws, Strategies in Equivalent Discrimination. - Sándor Martsa, On Animal Frames in English and Hungarian. - Geart van der meer, Further Ways to Improve the Active Dictionary: Collocations, Non-morphological >Derivations<, Grammar. - Stefan J. Schierholz, Governed Prepositions. A Database for German, English and Portuguese Nouns. - Ulrich Busse, Recent English Learner's Dictionaries and their Treatment of Political Correctness. - Bernhard Diensberg, Toward a Revision of the Etymologies in the »Oxford English Dictionary« (OED 3rd edition, in progress). - Lars Holm, »The bishop who strove for completeness.« On Taboos and Taboo-breaking in Swedish Dictionaries through the Ages. - Arne Zettersten/Hanne Lauridsen, The New Politiken English-Danish Dictionary: Politikens Engelsk/Dansk med betydningsforklaringer. - Hideki Watanabe, Quotations from »Beowulf« and Other English Poems in the »Oxford English Dictionary«. - Andreas Gröger, A Semantic Analysis of Old English Mental Verbs, Based on the Material of the Helsinki Corpus. - Ljubima Jordanowa, Die Zweite Wende (1996--1997) und die neuen Probleme für die Lexikographie in Bulgarien. - Makimi Kimura, The Naturalization Process of Japanese Loanwords as Reflected in English Dictionaries. The Four-Stage Hypothesis and Associated Problems. - Gunnar Persson, Vit flugsvamp or Destroying Angel. Cognitive Aspects of Names for Fungi in Some Languages. - Maja Lindfors Viklund/Yvonne Cederholm, Chasing the Dragon. Drug Related Terminology in a Multilingual Perspective.