1. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics. Lexical units

19. British & American lexicography. Main types of English dictionaries.
Types of dictionaries:
1.encyclopedic: concepts
-thing-books(objects; phenomena; origin; development; relations to other concepts)
2.Linguistic:word-books-vocabulary units (subj.mother of linguistic dict.)
(their semantic structure, usage)
Linguistic type:
1)nature of the word list:
a) general (etymological, phonemical, explanatory dict-s)
b) special (dict. of abbreviations, synonyms, antonyms, proverbs, surnames)
2)the information about words:
a)general explanation(definitions, pronunciation)
b)specialized(synonyms, antonyms, translation)
3)language: a)monolingual
b)bilingual (e-r, r-e)
c)multilingual(dict. of old-E and ME with explanations in ModE
4)time/historical: a)synchronic
b)diachronic
5)size: a)unabridged(not shortened)
b)abridged(pocket dict, mini-dict)
6)user/use of dict-ries:a)general purpose dict
b)scholars dict.
Difference bet. Br and Am lexicography
Br dictionaries used to be more linguistic (do not include names, extralinguistic inform.)
Am. – more encyclopedic,
extralinguistic inform.
- more deseniptive.


20. Some basic problems of dictionary compiling.
It divided into two problems: that of the number of the words, and that of the list of words to be included in a dictionary. As for the number of words there exist dictionaries of different volumes, EG: there are pocket dictionaries with 25 or less thousand words. Among the largest dictionaries there is Webster’s dictionary, it include about 600000 words.
The volume of the dictionary and the list of the words depend on the type of dictionary and its aim. Hornsby’s dictionary student includes about 100000 words, among which there are no words used by Shakespeare. On the contrary the OED does include such words, used by W. Shak. for specialist. The problem of the choice of words is connected with the problem of the norm of the language it may be included into a dictionary.
At different stages of his work the lexicographer is confronted with different other problems. Some of these refer to any type of dictionary; others are specific of only some or even one type. The most important of the former are 1)