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Words that Teem With Meaning - Copenhagen Views on Lexicography

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On the use of nomilized phrasal verbs in English literary prose; idioms into English; principles and design of a bilingual dictionary of current idiomatic usage; Danish Dickens translations as sources of neologisms in 19th-century dictionaries; English influence on modern Danish vocabulary and its implications for Danish/English lexicography; possession and existence - a problem in active Danish-Russian lexicography; synonomics after Chomsky - a challenge in progress; tools for historical linguists - innovations in the use of English historical dictionaries, corpora and databases.

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    Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
    Publication Date: 01/01/1992
    ISBN13: 9788772892337, 978-8772892337
    ISBN10: 8772892331
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    Lexicography Translation and language interpretation

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    Book Synopsis
    Words that Teem With Meaning - Copenhagen Views on Lexicography

    Table of Contents
    On the use of nomilized phrasal verbs in English literary prose; idioms into English; principles and design of a bilingual dictionary of current idiomatic usage; Danish Dickens translations as sources of neologisms in 19th-century dictionaries; English influence on modern Danish vocabulary and its implications for Danish/English lexicography; possession and existence - a problem in active Danish-Russian lexicography; synonomics after Chomsky - a challenge in progress; tools for historical linguists - innovations in the use of English historical dictionaries, corpora and databases.

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