A new type of folk-inspired definition in English monolingual learners' dictionaries and its usefulness for conveying syntactic information

International Journal of Lexicography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-242

  Lew, Robert ^a   Dziemianko, Anna ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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EID: 33749009548     PISSN: 09503846     EISSN: 14774577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecl011     Document Type: Article

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