multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

The Meaning-Text Theory is a formal, dependency-based linguistic theory in which the lexicon plays a central role. Within this theory, the vocabulary of a language is described by an Explanatory-Combinatorial Dictionary [ECD]. Unlike most existing dictionaries, an ECD is oriented towards language generation rather than analysis. This orientation makes it especially useful for language learners ...

Sir Isaac Newton may be considered the first pre-Eurasianist thinker. My research of his unpublished manuscripts demonstrates that he maintained presence cultural unity Eurasian space. To prove it, elaborated so-called “Eurasian dictionaries.” They are symbolic dictionaries translating meaning into symbols and vice versa. As evidently showed, standing for most important religious political noti...

In both written and spoken languages, we sometimes use different words in order to describe the same meaning. For instance, we use “constraint” (seigen) and “restriction” (seiyaku) as the same meaning. This makes text classification and text summarization difficult. In order to deal with this problem, dictionaries especially thesauri are used. However, in technical paper and patent documents, a...

This paper corresponds to the presentation of a Ph-D’s project being carried out at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Department of Lexicology, under the supervision of Prof. Willy Martin. The project’s framework is the interface area of Lexicology and the new Information Technologies, its main focus being the relationship between words and images in the brain. The final aim of this Ph-D is ...

What is the meaning of a word? Unless one believes that we are born with an innate set of meanings waiting to find their corresponding expression in language, another option is that we learn the meaning of a word by observing how it is used by the language community we are born in. Some usages find their way into dictionaries and become established word senses. In order to understand what const...

Sprotni slovar slovenskega jezika 2022 ('Growing Dictionary of the Slovenian Language 2022'), in 349 entries, brings newer, emerging words not yet included other dictionaries, suggested mainly by language users, and, to a lesser extent, newest meanings already dictionaries. The entries are accompanied full morphological data and basic information on meaning, usage possible markedness word. voca...