Thomas Herbst & Kerstin Popp 
The Perfect Learners’ Dictionary (?) [PDF ebook] 

Contents: I. The new generation of English learners’ dictionaries: historical background – assessment of specific features – the perspective of the user: Anthony P. Cowie , Learners’ dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective. – Flor Aarts , Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. – Michael Klotz , Word complementation in English learners’ dictionaries: A quantitive study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5. – Gabriele Stein , Exemplification in EFL dictionaries. – Robert F. Ilson , The treatment of meaning in learners’ dictionaries – and others. – Henri Béjoint , Compound nouns in learners’ dictionaries. – Brigitta Mittmann , The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. – Paul Bogaards , Access structures of learners’ dictionaries. – Kerstin Popp , Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. – David Heath , The treatment of international varieties. – John Ayto , Lexical evolution and learners’ dictionaries. – Klaus-Dieter Barnickel , Political correctness in learners’ dictionaries. – André Moulin , The Advanced Learners’ Dictionary: syntax cum semantics. – Gisela Böhner , Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE. – Burkhard Dammann , Teacher’s demands on learners’ dictionaries. – II. Learners’ dictionaries – other dictionaries: Franz-Josef Hausmann , Semiotaxis and learners’ dictionaries. – Jonathan Crowther , Encyclopedic learners’ dictionaries. – Dieter Götz , On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography). – Thomas Herbst , The English Valency Dictionary: linguistic theory and user-friendliness. – III. Dictionaries – corpora – perspectives: Della Summers , Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners’ dictionaries, especially the »Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English«. – Rosamund Moon , Needless and haystacks, idioms and corpora: gaining insight into idioms, using corpus analysis. – Jan Svartvik , Corpora and dictionaries. – Geoffrey Leech / Hillary Nessi , Moving towards perfection: the learners’ (electronic) dictionary of the future.