LEXICOGRAPHY
 

Hunston, p. 96-109
 


Hunston

  • Materials development: e.g. Longman Dictionary
     
  • Variation (by register)

    • nouns in ads

    • adjectives in tabloid newspapers

    • verbs in medical

    • adverbs in sermons

    • Activity: your own searches
       

  • Idioms (corpus size matters)

    • Activity: English Idioms: rank five of these; see how they rank in corpora
       

  • Neologisms

  • Why not just sue Google for idioms and neologisms?
     

  • Comparing related words

    • V: smash / hit [nn*]

    • ADJ: big / large [nn*]

    • N: [vvi] the house / home

    • collocates: N, V, ADJ ??

    • Activity: own comparisons

  • Multiple meanings of words

  • Collocation and phraseology

    • Project

    • Activity: pick a word (tentative)
       

  • "Basic English"
  • Lexical or grammatical?
    • [v*] him/her into [vvg]

    • [v*] him [v*]

    • this [v*] in with

    • "oh, just give it a NN1", "take a NN1 at it"