Corpus Lexicography

R. Krishnamurthy*

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    Abstract

    Corpus lexicography represents a dramatic change in the relationship between the texts of a language and the descriptions given in dictionaries. Large language corpora, stored and analysed on a computer, have become the preferred source of evidence in the creation of dictionaries for human users. Pioneered by Cobuild and other United Kingdom English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) dictionary publishers, corpus lexicography has greatly improved the accuracy and focus of EFL dictionaries, has influenced native-speaker and bilingual dictionaries, and underpins many national dictionary projects worldwide. The wealth of new information about language revealed by corpus lexicography will no doubt be made more easily available by future electronic dictionaries than by current paper editions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
    PublisherElsevier
    Pages250-254
    Number of pages5
    Edition2nd
    ISBN (Print)9780080448541
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2006

    Keywords

    • Annotation
    • Attestation
    • Citation
    • Collocation
    • Computer
    • Concordance
    • Corpus
    • EFL
    • Evidence
    • Lexicography
    • Software
    • Tagging
    • Usage

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