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Online English Monolingual Learner’s Dictionaries

Conversatoria Linguistica, 2023
Due to the development of technology, well-established publishers began to provide their English Monolingual Learner's Dictionaries (MLDs) online and free of charge. Dictionaries of this type have their own history, as well as common and distinctive features.
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Syntactic Information in Monolingual Dictionaries

Lingvisticae Investigationes, 1992
One of the most difficult things for the lexicographer to convey concerns the complex interdependencies between a verb and its complement-taking properties. Although this information forms an essential part of verb grammar, existing dictionaries prove inadequate in their attempt to provide the syntactic frame a verb can enter and the possible ...
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Comparison of Three Monolingual Learner’s Dictionaries

rEFLections, 2007
This study was conducted to examine similarities and differences among three monolingual learner’s dictionaries (MLDs). The selected MLDs, resulting from a survey of 200 first-year KMUTT students’ use of MLDs, were Oxford Student’s Dictionary of English (2001), Longman Active Study Dictionary (2004) and Macmillan Essential Dictionary (2003). To analyze
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Innovation in monolingual English learner’s dictionaries

2023
Abstract 80 years have passed since the publication of A. S. Hornby et al.’s Idiomatic and syntactic English dictionary (1942), which was reprinted a few years later by Oxford University Press as A learner’s dictionary of current English (1948).
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Anthropocentrism in monolingual English learners’ dictionaries – Revisited

Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Heuberger 2003 analyzed monolingual English (learners’) dictionaries with regard to anthropocentrism, an ideology that regards nature primarily from the viewpoint of its usefulness to human beings. Focusing on reference works published in the mid-1990s, that article identified strong anthropocentric biases concerning animals within definitions.
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On Corpus Citations in Monolingual General Dictionaries

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 2015
This paper presents some results from an online survey regarding the functions and presentation of lexicographically compiled and automatically compiled corpus citations in a general monolingual e-dictionary of German ( elexiko ). Our findings suggest that dictionary users have a clear understanding of the functions of corpus citations in lexicography.
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Fixed Phrases in Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries

1992
Learning a second language involves familiarising oneself with at least part of its vocabulary and learning to apply the rules of its grammar. This means that a great many lexical elements have to be learnt by heart: the L2 student has to get acquainted with words and fixed phrases.
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