The Treatment of Binomials in Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries

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ID21185761
AuthorsJihad M Hamdan (0000-0002-8952-6310, University of Jordan), Mohammad Nour Abu Guba (University of Jordan)
Year2007
Volume8
Issue1
Pages105-122
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Arabic-English Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1680-0982
PublisherThe Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities - APETAU (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33806/ijaes2000.8.1.8
OpenAlexW3194304776
LanguageEN
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The paper is intended to be a contribution to lexicographical research. In particular it reports on the findings of an exploratory study on how dictionaries treat binomials, e.g. bread and butter, bolts and nuts, etc. A set of 40 binomials from a preliminary larger list of pairs are selected on the basis of their frequency of occurrence in the British National Corpus (BNC). These binomials are looked up in five paper-based dictionaries: three monolingual (English- English) and two bilingual (English-Arabic). The findings reveal that some of the target binomials are absent from the five dictionaries. Moreover, the 'test' dictionaries show some inconsistency in their treatment of binomials, and, more often than not, fall short of meeting the EFL user needs. The findings point to a weak relationship between a binomial’s frequency of occurrence and its probability of being listed in a certain dictionary. However, the findings suggest that opaque and conventional binomials have more chances to be listed than transparent ones

Arabic · Combinatorics · Exploratory research · Lexicographical order · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Sociology · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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