LEXICOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF DICTIONARIES IN GREAT BRITAIN -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF DICTIONARIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER TWO. MODERN VARIETIES OF ENGLISH: BRITISH AND AMERICAN -- GENERAL -- SPELLING DIFFERENCES -- PUNCTUATION -- SYNTAX AND GRAMMAR -- MORPHOLOGY -- LEXICON -- Ten Groups of Lexical Differences -- Transitional Items -- Rules of the Road -- SUMMARY THE TEN GROUPS OF LEXICAL DIFFERENCES -- NOTES -- LIST 2A -- NUMBER TABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AE AND BE USAGE -- CHAPTER THREE. THE PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION OF ENGLISH -- GENERAL -- THE BRITISH TRANSCRIPTION OF VOWELS -- IPA TRANSCRIPTION -- RP -- THE AMERICAN TRANSCRIPTION OF VOWELS -- An Historical Perspective -- The Phoneme -- The American Standard Pronunciation -- General American (GA) -- THE TRANSCRIPTION OF VOWELS IN DICTIONARIES -- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RP AND GA VOWELS -- THE BRITISH TRANSCRIPTION OF CONSONANTS -- THE SIMPLIFIED TRANSCRIPTION OF CONSONANTS -- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RP AND GA DISTRIBUTION OF CONSONANTS -- STRESS -- NOTES -- COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SIMPLIFIED TRANSCRIPTION (ST) AND IPA TRANSCRIPTION -- LIST 3A -- LIST 3B -- LIST 3C -- LIST 3D -- CHAPTER FOUR. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEXICOGRAPHIC DEFINITION -- GENERAL -- TYPES OF LEXICOGRAPHIC DEFINITION -- Referential Definitions -- Formulaic Definitions -- TWELVE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEXICOGRAPHIC DEFINITION -- 1. Referential Definition by the Same Part-of-Speech -- 2. The Function of Metalanguage -- 3. The Use of Synonyms -- 4. Illustrative Phrases -- The Role of Illustrative Phrases -- The Lexicographic Acceptability of Illustrative Phrases -- 5. The Specificity of Definitions.

6. Inclusion of Lexical Patterns -- 7. Labeling -- Field Labels -- Temporal Labels -- Regional Labels -- Prescriptivism Versus Descriptivism -- The Usage Panel -- 8. The Order of Defined Meanings -- 9. The Treatment of Connotative Meanings -- 10. Clarity -- The Wording of Definitions -- The Defining Vocabulary -- 11. Consistency in Defining -- 12. The Need for Objectivity -- NOTES -- CHAPTER FIVE. GRAMMAR IN THE DICTIONARY -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE LEARNER'S DICTIONARY -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF MODERN LINGUISTICS -- TOPICS REQUIRING SPECIAL ATTENTION IN THE DICTIONARY -- NOTES -- LIST 5A -- LIST 5B -- LIST 5C -- LIST 5D -- LIST 5E -- CHAPTER SIX. LEXICAL COMBINABILITY -- GENERAL -- Free Combinations -- Idioms -- Collocations -- Transitional Combinations -- Compounds -- The Lexicographic Treatment of Combinations -- THE ECD -- OBLIGATORY COLLOCATIONS -- CA Collocations -- EN Collocations -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.