How useful is monolingual lexicography for authors of bilingual dictionaries?

Abstract

This paper claims that new monolingual works should be based on thorough knowledge of the needs of not only ordinary users, but also professional ones. The reflection of the uniqueness of single and bilingual works could benefit lexicographers from both mentioned areas, in other words, seeing data in monolingual dictionaries through the eyes of a bilingual lexicographer could prove inspiring and useful.

Keywords

• bilingual lexicography
• equivalence
• information offer
• Large German-Czech Academic Dictionary
• monolingual lexicography
• morphology
• semantics
• stylistics
• word-formation