Lexikos  

D.J. van Schalkwyk

Foreword of Lexikos 6

Rufus Gouws

Foreword by the President of AFRILEX

William Frawley

This paper examines the way dictionaries describe metaforms, items that refer to the linguistic system itself (e.g., pronouns and indexicals). The paper first shows the inconsistent grammatical classification of metaforms, which are usually and incorrectl... see more

Rufus H. Gouws

In a multilingual society dictionaries play an important role in assisting to achieve communicative success between the speakers of the different languages. Speakers in a multilingual society often employ a bilingual dictionary as the only instrument to m... see more

Mohamed Helmy Heliel

The paper centres on a plan for an English-Arabic phrasal verb dictionary for Arab trainee translators. Such a dictionary answers a pressing need. It is not a bilingual dictionary but a translation one. This requires special lexicographical treatment as r... see more

M. Lynne Murphy

This paper considers the issues and options in creating orthographies for languages without alphabetic traditions. In particular, it looks at issues that face linguists and anthropologists in creating such orthographies for preliminary descriptive work on... see more

Tony Naden

This paper first draws attention to the necessity of careful choice of terminology in ethnological discussions of the areas of culture often termed 'traditional religion', especially in the use of terms like 'worship'. There follows a discussion of some o... see more

A.F. Prinsloo

<b>The Morphological Reduction Trigger <i>Moet</i> and the Dictionary</b>The Afrikaans auxiliary verb <i>moet</i> ("must") can, within certain contexts, act as a trigger for the morphological reduction of a compound mai... see more

Yukio Tono

In this paper, we describe an on-going project of the corpus of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners in Japan and its application for pedagogical dictionary compilation. We especially focus on the learners' errors in verb collocation patterns and ... see more

Herbert Ernst Wiegand

This article presents an excerpt from a theory of lexicographic texts which deals particularly with dictionary articles. Almost all characteristics of dictionary articles considered as typically lexicographic may be regarded as results of textual condensa... see more

Willem Botha

<b>The <i>WAT</i> and etymology: Will the cycle be completed?</b> Afrikaans historical lexicography is a neglected discipline and to a large extent metalexicographers hold the overall-descriptive Afrikaans dictionary, Die <i>... see more

Rufus H. Gouws

<b>Meeting Lexicographic Needs</b> A multilingual and multicultural South Africa has its own lexicographic needs and the fulfilment of these needs demands thorough planning and the employment of a sound and effective organisational theory. Thi... see more

Reinhard Rudolf Karl Hartmann

The paper focuses on the mutual relations between linguistics and lexicography. Against the background of etymology and comparative-historical linguistic studies and using the words 'lexical' and 'culture' as examples, an attempt is made to demonstrate th... see more

Willy Martin

This article considers dictionaries as lexical information / knowledge sources to be derived from a deeper, underlying, lexical database. These dictionary-tokens or -instantiations are inter alia specified by the users' needs. As a case in point of such a... see more

N.E. Osselton

Thomas Blount is unique among English compilers of the seventeenth century in systematically naming books and authors as evidence for the use of words entered in his dictionary. Such documentation of the vocabulary would now be associated with scholarly h... see more

Ilse Feinauer

<i>Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal</i> Volume IX.Volume nine of the <i>Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal</i> (<i>WAT</i>) is the first product of a completely new system used by the Bureau of the WAT: it is the firs... see more

L.A. Barnes

Review of <b>William Branford.</b> <i>The South African Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English</i>

J. du T. McLachlan

Review of <b>J. Combrink en J. Spies.</b> <i>SARA. Sakboek van regte Afrikaans.</i>

Ilse Feinauer

Review of <b>Jonathan Crowther (Editor), Kathryn Kavanagh (Assistant Editor) and Michael Ashby (Phonetics Editor).</b> <i>Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English.</i>

C. van Schalkwyk

De Stadler's <i>Groot Tesourus van Afrikaans</i> is reviewed. Critical questions are examined such as: What is a thesaurus? What is the function of a thesaurus? Who is the typical user of a thesaurus? What is it good for? How should it be comp... see more

Annie Gagiano

Review of <b>Margaret Doyle.</b> <i>The A-Z of Non-Sexist Language.</i>

B.F. Smit

Review of <b>I.E. du Toit.</b> <i>Tweetalige Polisiewoordeboek. Bilingual Police Dictionary.</i>

Geoffrey Hughes

Review of <i>Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English</i>

R.H. Gouws

Review of <b>N.E. Osselton.</b> <i>Chosen Words. Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers.</i>

Rambhajun Sitaram

Review of <b>Rajend Mesthrie.</b> <i>A Lexicon of South African Indian English.</i>

W.F. van Delft

Review of <b>Terminology Committee for Social Work. Vaktaalkomitee vir Maatskaplike Werk.</b> <i>New Dictionary of Social Work. Nuwe Woordeboek vir Maatskaplike Werk.</i>

Liesel Hibbert

Review of <b>Della Thompson (Editor).</b> <i>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English.</i>

P.A. Mbenzi

Review of <b>G.W.R. Tobias and B.H.C. Turvey.</b> <i>English-Kwanyama Dictionary.</i>

Johan Combrink

Review of <b>Annelize van Rooyen.</b> <i>Die Afrikaanse Naamboek.</i>

Albina R. Chuwa

Swahili dictionaries have been on the market since 1882. Most of these dictionaries were compiled by foreigners who were either missionaries or political administrators working in East Africa. Although the history of Swahili dictionary compilation seems t... see more

M.D. Mageria

This paper traces the historical development of lexicography in Kenya. Attempts are made to show that although Kenya's linguistic landscape boasts with about 50 indigenous African languages, very little has been done in the field of compiling their dictio... see more

D.C. Hauptfleisch

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