Open Access"Peculiar to Themselves": Idioms in the Dictionary
Author(s) -
Pamela Munro
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-1666
pISSN - 0363-2946
DOI - 10.3765/bls.v28i1.3856
Subject(s) - bilingual dictionary , linguistics , phrase , computer science , word (group theory) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Some items are especially difficult to put into a dictionary, either because it is hard to decide what form of the word or phrase to enter or because it is hard to decide how to translate the chosen entry and to explain or illustrate its grammatical use. In this paper I will survey some of the problems various such expressions pose for the fieldworker constructing a bilingual dictionary of an unfamiliar target language.