Lexikos  

Elsabé Taljard

Foreword by the editor of Lexikos 21

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Foreword by the President of AFRILEX

Arleta Adamska-Salaciak

The lexicons of natural languages are not isomorphic. Reasons for the anisomorphism can be sought on three interrelated planes: language structure, extralinguistic reality, and conceptualisation. Simply put, the relevant differences may reside in the lang... see more

Mariëtta Alberts

This article deals with the national dictionary offices of the previous bilingual dispensation, the eleven official national dictionary offices in the present multilingual dispensation, and the future prospects of these offices. It discusses the past disp... see more

Henning Bergenholtz,Theo J.D. Bothma

In the current debate about the status of lexicography there are at least three quite different opinions: (i) Lexicography does not have or need any kind of own theory but can use all relevant linguistic theories. (ii) Lexicography needs a special theory ... see more

Herman L. Beyer

Addressing equivalence prevails in a dictionary article when all the translation equivalents in the translation equivalent paradigm are represented in the target language examples in the cotext section and each target language example contains a translati... see more

Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera

Interest in specialized lexicography has been propelled both by the development of LSP communication in academic circles and by the consolidation of function-based approaches to lexicography that have identified the existence of several user types, e.g., ... see more

Minah Nabirye,Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Despite some heroic efforts over the past few years, Lusoga remains mostly underdeveloped. It is under continuous pressure from more prestigious languages, such as the neighbouring Luganda and especially the only official language in Uganda, English. Luso... see more

Dion Nkomo,Mbulungeni Madiba

This article proposes a lexicographical approach to the compilation of multilingual concept literacy glossaries which may play a very important role in supporting students at institutions of higher education. In order to support concept literacy, especial... see more

D.J. Prinsloo

This article is a critical evaluation of lemmatisation strategies for nouns and verbs in isiZulu with specific attention to the problem of stem identification. The presumed target users of dictionaries compiled according to these lemmatisation strategies ... see more

Elsabé Taljard,Mahlodi Jean Nchabeleng

One of the many implications of the process of language democratization which started post-1994 in South Africa is the empowerment of the previously marginalized South African Bantu languages to become languages of higher functions, i.e. languages of lear... see more

Sven Tarp

A frequent and well-known problem within lexicography is the use of various terms to denominate the same phenomenon as well as the use of the same term to denominate various, completely different phenomena. Such a non-systematic terminology may lead to co... see more

Herbert Ernst Wiegand,Rufus H. Gouws

The empirical domain of the subject matter of dictionary research changes, among others, due to the publication of new dictionaries. A noticeable trend seems to be the increasing occurrence of more new elements regarding dictionary structures in the front... see more

Lorna Hiles

Examples in dictionaries come in many different forms. They may be sentences or phrases. They may be corpus-based or made up by the lexicographer. They may contain the lemma in its uninflected form or they may contain an inflection of the lemma. In some d... see more

Lydia Namatende Sakwa

Landau (1991: 217) stipulates that 'usage refers to any or all uses of language'. It is the study of good, correct, or standard uses of language as distinguished from bad, incorrect, and nonstandard uses of language. Usage may also include the study of an... see more

Willem Botha

Tibute to the editor of Lexikos 7 to 20.

Maria Smit

Review of Lexikographische Metatexte. Eine Untersuchung nicht­inte­grierter Außentexte in einsprachigen Wörterbüchern des Deutschen als Fremd­sprache.

J.C.M.D. du Plessis

Review of Dictionaries in Spanish and English from 1554 to 1740: Their Structure and Development.

Birger Andersen

Review of Specialised Dictionaries for Learners. 

J.C.M.D. du Plessis

Resensie van Woordenboeken en hun lotgevallen: Studies over lexicogra­fische praktijk (ca. 1850 tot heden). en van Lexicografie in Nederland: Peilingen in de negentiende en twin­tigste eeuw. 

Michael Mann

Rezension von Herbert Ernst Wiegand und Mª Teresa Fuentes Morán. Estructuras lexi­co­gráficas. Aspectos centrales de una teoría de la forma del diccionario.

Crispin Maalu-Bungi

Ciluba is one of the four national Congolese languages spoken in the central south of the country. Since the end of the 19th century, it has acquired the status of a written language and up to the present possesses several lexicographic works of which the... see more

Pierre Ondo-Mébiame,Guy-Modeste Ekwa Ebanéga

The book On Est Ensemble: 852 mots pour comprendre le français du Gabon (L. Ditougou, 2009) is an important contribution to the history of French spoken in Gabon. However, this work presents some shortcomings from a metalexicographic point of view. These ... see more

Tanja Harteveld

Publication announcements of dictionaries published in the previous year. 

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