What is in the entry of a collocational
Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik nr 11, 91-101
Lingwistyka Stosowana
What is in the entry of a collocational
Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik nr 11, 91-101
Lingwistyka Stosowana 11: 2014, 91–101
Anna ZAGÓRSKA Uniwersytet Warszawski
What is in the Entry of a Collocational Dictionary?
The present article provides an overview on the typical content of entries in collocational dictionaries. Firstly, attention is devoted to the headwords of the dictionaries under discussion. Secondly, the article focuses on the entry structure and the arrangement of collocates. Finally, it examines various types of additional information which is included in the entries. The above-mentioned questions are discussed based on some previous lexicographic research on collocations (e.g. S. Nuccuroni 2003, R. Przybylska 2007, S. Coffey 2012) as well as on eight collocational dictionaries of the Polish and English language (Ch. Douglas Kozłowska/ H. Dzierżanowska 1993, E. Jędrzejko et al. 1998, D. Osuchowska 2002, J. Crowther et al. 2002, Ch. Douglas Kozłowska 2004, M. Bańko 2006, E. Geller/ A. Dąbrówka 2007, M. Rundell 2010).
Despite their unquestionable usefulness to language users, collocational dictionaries still seem a rarity, especially when one searches for those bilingual, multilingual or devoted to languages for specific purposes (LSP). Perhaps the reason is that the compi-lation of a collocational dictionary is a particularly time-consuming and challenging task. To make matters worse, collocational dictionaries have been devoted scarce aca-demic research.
Some honorable exceptions include works by D. Osuchowska (2002), S. Nuccorini (2003), A. Tutin (2005, 2010) and S. Coffey (2011). D. Osuchowska (2002) presents some problems encountered in the course of compilation of a bilingual dictionary of collocations. S. Nuccorini (2003) describes several collocational dictionaries searching for an ‘ideal’ dictionary of English collocations. A Tutin (2005) compares in terms of collocational content two dictionaries of French collocations with two general mono-lingual dictionaries. A. Tutin (2010) focuses on the approach to the notion of colloca-tion adopted in six collocacolloca-tional diccolloca-tionar