| Abstract |
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was an innovative dictionary from many points of view. The paper focuses on one of such innovative features of the OED, namely the method of description of word meaning. One of the ambitions of the OED team was ‘to show more clearly and fully than has hitherto been done, or even attempted, the development of the sense or various senses of each word from its etymology and from each other’. For this purpose, the OED editors described semantic structures of English words, mechanisms of development of transferred senses from different semantic components of word meaning. This approach transformed the OED definitions into a very valuable source for the study and investigation of semantic structures of English words.
I. Mel'cuk’s theory has a considerable impact on the development of methodology of semantic description of different languages. This theory, from my point of view, is also interesting as it has returned to the lexicographic practice and further elaborated long forgotten great ideas of the OED editors, and particularly James Murray. The paper discusses some parallels between the OED semantic theory and the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (ECD) of I. Mel’čuk. |
| BibTex |
@inproceedings{ELX2020_2021-026,
address = {Alexandroupolis},
title = {Definitions of the {Oxford} {English} {Dictionary} and {Explanatory} {Combinatorial} {Dictionary} of {I}. {Mel}’čuk},
isbn = {978-618-85138-1-5},
url = {https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2020-2021/EURALEX2020-2021_Vol1-p255-261.pdf},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Lexicography for {Inclusion}: {Proceedings} of the 19th {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}, 7-9 {September} 2021, {Alexandroupolis}, {Vol}. 1},
publisher = {Democritus University of Thrace},
author = {Margalitadze, Tinatin},
editor = {Gavriilidou, Zoe and Mitsiaki, Maria and Fliatouras, Asimakis},
year = {2020},
pages = {255--261},} |
