An About-Turn Halfway Through the Completion of a Multi Volume Overall-Descriptive Dictionary : Gallantry or Folly?

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Page 419-425
Author Willem Botha
Title An About-Turn Halfway Through the Completion of a Multi Volume Overall-Descriptive Dictionary : Gallantry or Folly?
Abstract This article examines two questions concerning a drastic break in continuity halfway through the compilation of a multivolume overall-descriptive dictionary. The questions are: (i) is acceleration in itself motivation enough for a drastic break in the continuity of an overall-descriptive dictionary, and (ii) at what stage in the ever continuing development of a language should an overall-descriptive dictionary be compiled and can an ill-timed starting date justify a break in continuity? It is argued that acceleration can under certain conditions justify a break in continuity and that an overall-descriptive dictionary can only be compiled when a language is considered to be standardized.
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@InProceedings{ELX94-046,
	   author = {Willem Botha},
	   title = {An About-Turn Halfway Through the Completion of a Multi Volume Overall-Descriptive Dictionary : Gallantry or Folly?},
	   pages = {419-425},
	   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th EURALEX International Congress},
	   year = {1994},
	   month = {aug-sep},
	   date = {30-3},
	   address = {Amsterdam, the Netherlands},
	   editor = {Willy Martin, Willem Meijs, Margreet Moerland, Elsemiek ten Pas, Piet van Sterkenburg & Piek Vossen},
	   publisher = {Euralex},
	   isbn = {90-900-7537-2},
	}
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