Course Description

This course consists of a complete introduction to lexicology and lexicography, whether it be synchronic (description of a word at a precise moment) or diachronic (description of the evolution of a word across time). The students will have to take into account the divergences between lexical analysis and lexicographic description, in particular in the domains of etymology and semantics. With use of methodologies studied during class, they will be capable of transposing lexicographical research results into lexicographic descriptions for a dictionary.