Introduction to the Lexicology and Lexicography of
English
Lexicology and Lexicography as Scholarly Fields
Lexical Stratification and Differentiation
The Art and Craft of Lexicography
The History of English Lexicography
Instructor
Danko.Sipka@asu.edu, http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka Ph.D. Psychology, Institute of Psychology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Belgrade; M.A., Russian,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Humboldt Post-Doc in Germany. Professor of Slavic languages at
Synopsis
This course addresses fundamental issues of English lexicology and offers an overview of general and English lexicography. The students will be asked to employ these theoretical considerations in analyzing English-Polish lexical and lexicographic material.
Schedule
June 3 2:30-8:15 pm
June 4 2:30-8:15 pm
June 3 - 4 (1 hour): Overview
June 3 - 4 (2 hours): Lexicology and Lexicography as Scholarly Fields, Lexical Stratification and Differentiation
June 3 - 4 (2 hours): Lexical Relations, Lexical Semantics
June 3 - 4 (3 hours): Types of Dictionaries, Lexicographic Sources, The Dictionary Macrostructure, The Dictionary Microstructure
June 3 - 4 (2 hours): The Art and Craft of Lexicography, The History of English Lexicography
June 3-4 (1 hours): Computational Lexicography
June 3-4 (0.5 hour): Final Exam
Coursework
11.5 hours of in-class contact. Students will be charged with making a brief presentation of their project within one of the in-class segments of the course
Grading
Class Participation (20%), Course Project (40%), Final Exam (40%)
Lexicology and Lexicography as Scholarly Fields
The Lexicon in Linguistic Theories
Lexicology vs. Lexicography
Neighboring
Disciplines
Lipka: 1.1
Lexical Stratification and Differentiation
Territorial Differentiation
Social and Functional Stratification
Temporal
Differentiation
Lipka 1.3
Synonymy
Antonymy
Homonymy
Lexical
Sets and Hierarchies
Lipka Chapter IV
Polysemic Structures
Metaphorical Extensions
Semantic Primitives and prototypes
Lipka 3.3, 3.4
Monolingual vs. Bilingual
General vs. Special
Printed
vs. Electronic
Landau 1
Corpora
Native Speakers
Previous
Dictionaries
Landau 6
Ordering of the Entries
Front and Back Matter
Multiword
Units
Landau 3
Entry Word
Lemma
Definition
Landau 3,4
The Art and Craft of Lexicography
Phases of Work
Organization and Collaboration
Schedule
Landau 6
The History of English Lexicography
Pre-Johnson Period
Johnson’s Dictionary
OED
Lipka 1.4, Landau 2
Lexicon and NLP
TEI Standard
Lexicographic
Tools
Landau
7, http://wordnet.princeton.edu/, http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DI.html
Books and papers:
Landau, Sidney I. (2001) Dictionaries. The Art and
Craft of Lexicography,
Lipka, Leonhard (1992) An Outline of English Lexicology, Niemeyer, 2nd Edition
Miller, George et
al. (2003) WordNet, Release 2 (electronic document),
University Press.
Internet resources:
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/