Main Problems of Lexicography
The problems of lexicography are connected with the selection of headwords, the number, the structure and contents of the dictionary entry.
Selection of headwords:
-the problem of whether a general descriptive dictionary, whether unilingual or bilingual, should give the historical information about a word;
-selection between scientific and technical terms;
-it is debatable whether a unilingual explanatory dictionary should try to cover all the words of the language, including neologisms, nonce-words, slang etc.;
-the problem of whether the selected units have the right to a separate entry (syntagmatic boundaries of the word) and which are to be included under one common headword (paradigmatic boundaries of the word).
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