Oxford UP, Date: 2000. ~No ownership marks. As new. . Hardback. Fine/Fine. xviii, 304pp. With dustwrapper. Binding tight, text unmarked. 2000. Oxford UP ISBN 0198237804 9780198237808 [GB]

ISBN10: 0198237804, ISBN13: 9780198237808, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. This book unites lexicography with theoretical linguistics. The two fields tend to ignore each other: lexicographers produce dictionaries, linguists grammars. As a result grammars and dictionaries are often discordant and sometimes glaringly incompatible. In Systematic Lexicography Juri Apresjan shows the insights linguistics has to offer lexicography, and equally that the achievements and challenges of lexicography provide a rewarding field for linguisticinquiry. The author presents the vocabulary of a language as a complicated system reflecting a specific view of the world. He does so within an integrated theory of language, in whichgrammatical and lexical meanings, and the conceptualizations underlying them, blend and interact. Each lexeme, he argues, is a point of intersection of various lexicographic types classes of lexemes with shared semantic, syntactic, pragmatic or mental properties, that are sensitive to the same rules, and which should thus be uniformly described in the dictionary. When any lexeme is viewed against the whole set of linguistic rules, new facets emerge, and these reveal, he shows, keycharacteristics of words that dictionaries do not currently record. Professor Apresjan not only presents an original, unified theory of language, inspired by the Moscow school of semantics.He also works out its consequences and describes the problems he ...