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Task 1, Apuntes de Idioma Inglés

Asignatura: Morfologia y lexico en ingles, Profesor: Miguel Fuster, Carrera: Estudis Anglesos, Universidad: UV

Tipo: Apuntes

2016/2017

Subido el 17/02/2017

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Activities for discussion (Fuster 2012: 14)
Activity 1.3
English monolingual dictionaries do not provide
separate entries for plurals like rights, or past
participles such as believed. However, plurals
such as brethren and forms like walking may have
their own entry. Do you think that dictionary users
might consider this policy useful?
[Answer the question: between 200 & 300
words]
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Activities for discussion (Fuster 2012: 14)

Activity 1.

English monolingual dictionaries do not provide

separate entries for plurals like rights , or past

participles such as believed. However, plurals

such as brethren and forms like walking may have

their own entry. Do you think that dictionary users

might consider this policy useful?

[Answer the question: between 200 & 300

words]

Activities for discussion (Fuster 2012: 14)

Activity 1.

Discuss the arguments in these two quotations

from Atkins and Rundell’s The Oxford Guide to

Practical Lexicography (2008: 2):

All dictionaries are incomplete, and come under the

heading ‘work in progress’. And just as there is no

such thing as a perfect dictionary, there is equally,

no ‘right’ way to produce a dictionary.

[Discuss the points raised: between 200 & 300

words]

Activity 2.

Quirk et al. ( 1985 : 1569 ) have commented on the variability of compounds in writing. Some English compounds even show three alternative forms, like flower pot , flower-pot , flowerpot. Differences may be due to different standards; American English speakers prefer to write language retarded , while British English speakers prefer language-retarded. There may be other reasons which account for these orthographical differences. Examine ten more compounds in a contemporary English corpus

Activity 2.

Some suggested searches :

time-consuming duty-free ice cream stained-glass sofa bed cellphone … I suggest these corpora from the hyperlink COCA/GloWbe] to decide whether these differences are frequent or infrequent. Recall that COCA represents American English. Note down similarities/differences, and which of the three sources has/have been particularly useful to decide about variability in the spelling of English compounds.