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Article: Prepositional entries in English-Polish dictionaries.(LINGUISTICS)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT
The present paper examines the microstructure of entries devoted to prepositions in bilingual English-Polish dictionaries. Given the problems inherent in the lexicographic treatment of function words, it seems worthwhile to ask:
* what are the strategies employed in cases of lack of interlingual equivalence?
* what is the preferred type of sense-structure (i.e. source-language based, target-language based or mixed)?
* does the entry highlight links between related senses?
* how much phraseology is deemed necessary to present the properties of the preposition in question?
* how does the choice of entry ...