Word formation in didactic Spanish dictionaries

Abstract

The central objective of this research is to examine, evaluate and analyze the information about word formation included in a selection of learner’s dictionaries. Particularly, we will focus on certain aspects related with lexical morphology that, as indicated in the very prologue, cause difficulties when it comes to be gathered and codified in the dictionary corpus, as much in the macrostructure (for example, inclusion of initials, prefixes and suffixes, adverbs ending in –mente, adjectives in –ble or compounds) as in the microstructure (for example, inclusion of summaries with the derivatives of the dictionary entry at issue).