Keywords

• The essay focuses on a theoretical and methodological look towards the improving of today lexicography
• based on corpora and collaborative dictionaries
• especially monolingual. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of traditional printed dictionaries are compared to collaborative ones
• such as Wictionary
• by highlighting the main differences of covering
• linguistic treatment and empirical structure of a data. In particular
• the author explains the different strategies enacted by the two kinds of dictionaries towards the empirical linguistic fact in its widest meaning
• in the light of the opportunities offered by corporaâ€
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• s linguistic
• usersâ€
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• participation and their request regarding the workâ€
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• s contents