ABSTRACT
Despite its title, Leonhard Lipka, An Outline of English Lexicology (Ttibingen: Niemeyer, 1990) covers many of the matters that have been dealt with in this book and is not limited to the study of dictionaries in any narrow sense. Lexicology has been given rather more attention by French specialists than by English-speaking ones, and most of the English-language discussion is quite technical. Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) is interesting in that it sets dictionaries in a wider context. Various entries in Tom McArthur, The Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) relate to dictionaries of different kinds.
