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Preliminaries

Basic concepts
Lexicon
Dictionary
Lexicography
Dictionary vs. encyclopedia
Onomasiology and semasiology
Electronic data processing

Structure of dictionaries
Framing structure
Microstructure
Relations in the lexicon
Macrostructure
Dictionary and language description

Functions and types of dictionaries
Survey
Etymological dictionary
Valency dictionary
Dictionary of proper names
Frequency dictionary
Basic vocabulary
Retrograde dictionary
Terminological dictionary
Onomasiological dictionary
Bilingual dictionary

How to make a dictionary
Survey of main steps
Lexicographer's instructions
Data, corpus, sample
Lemmatization
Concordance
Lexical database
Homonym numbers
Consistency in dictionary making
Lemma selection
Exporting a dictionary from the database
Sort order
Dictionary layout
Polysemy in the dictionary entry
Converting a bilingual dictionary

Appendices
Abbreviations
References

abbr.	plene	comment
DBMS	database management system	database program
L₁	user language	including user's native language
L₂	foreign language
s.v.	sub voce	under the lemma