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    180705046
    Lexicology

    Study the article entitled CORPUS LINGUISTICS, LEARNER’S DICTIONARY, LEXICOGRAPHY and


    answer the following questions:

    1. The statement “Words do not have meanings, meanings have words”. Can you explain this
    statement Lexicologically ?

    2. There are so many dictionaries we can buy from the bookstores, such as Oxford Learner's
    Dictionaries, Macmillan Dictionary, Cambridge dictionary, Oxford dictionary, COBUILD, and
    many others. Amongst these, why COBUILD as a dictionary is said as COBUILD revolution?

    3. Many ESP students thought that better dictionaries have not solved their problems?
    Explain.

    4. Coming back to our corpus, the first step in looking for meaning in context will be to
    build a concordance for this node word. What we mean by this statement?

    5. How the lexicographers work in making dictionary?

    6. As Sinclair (2002) mentions it is now fully accepted that meaning and syntax are
    totally intertwined, which must mean that in analysing lexis in context we need to see
    syntactic patterns. Parsing seeks to add this information to a corpus. What we mean
    by this statement?

    ANSWER
    1. the notion of arbitrariness in declaring that the meaning of a word can only be fully
    appreciated in context, the context is primordial. This poses a major problem in
    dictionary writing as an entry is always out of context. Meaning thus represents a
    challenge to both the lexicographer and the dictionary user. For the lexicographer
    meaning must be transferred from context to the dictionary entry using a
    metalanguage that is sufficiently clear to the user.
    2. When most of learner's dictionaries had grown over time with no clear criteria for the
    inclusion or exclusion of words. The COBUILD solution was bold; the team would build
    a dictionary from scratch based not on file cards, but on a large electronic corpus. It
    should be noted that from now on the word corpus, plural corpora, will only be used to
    refer to large electronic corpora assembled from very large quantities of authentic text.
    3. The problem with many ESP students, particularly those in the sciences, is that they
    are not ready purchasers of dictionaries; at best they will use a bilingual dictionary and
    fall into all the false friend traps that are presented. The source of the problem is
    obvious; no matter how hard we try a dictionary can only present a decontextualised
    meaning, it is the user who must operate a transfer of meaning from a dictionary
    source to a real text. It follows that the farther we are from the context that the user
    wishes to encode or decode the greater the risk of misunderstanding.
    4. Quite apart from left and right sorting which will reveal syntagmatic units, the obvious
    next step in sense disambiguation is to sort by part of speech. If meaning is linked to
    syntax then verbs and nouns will provide differing sense patterns. Once this basic
    division has been carried out, more precise analyses can be carried out.
    5. Lexicographers are, by definition, those who work on creating dictionaries. They
    compile facts for dictionary entries, write the entries themselves, and edit the work of
    other lexicographers.
    6. Part of speech annotation simply names the words but does not tell us what syntactic
    role they are playing. It is now fully accepted that meaning and syntax are totally
    intertwined (Sinclair 2002). Full parsing is fraught with difficulty given the extreme
    complexity of real data as opposed to the cleanliness of a grammarian's model. It also
    means accepting a grammatical model, and one model does not fit all. The answer is
    the Word Sketch project is to partially parse by setting out to annotate a series
    ofpatterns on annotated and lemmatised corpus.

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