A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

A Critique of the Controlled Defining Vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

This article critically analyses the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV) in relation to its size, range and frequency, senses, parts of speech, affixes, and multiword expressions. The recent versions of the LDV contain a relatively fixed number of items. Over 85% of those items were found to be highly...

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Main Author: Hai Xu
Format: article
Language:AF
DE
EN
FR
NL
Published: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2012
Subjects:
controlled defining vocabulary
longman defining vocabulary
size
range
frequency
sense indication
pos indication
inclusion of affixes
inclusion of multiword expressions
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PD1-7159
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a43854d805884cd4afc3839788fb105f
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