ABSTRACT
Lexicography has been gaining relevance in linguistics over the last three decades. This evolution is in part indebted to the so-called ‘lexical turn’ undertaken by several linguistic disciplines, both theoretical and applied. In traditional linguistic theory and, later, in the standard versions of generative linguistics, grammar was regarded as the locus of regularities, whereas vocabulary was described as an inventory of items characterized by idiosyncratic properties. However, modular approaches to lexis and grammar are no longer prevalent and have gradually given way to a plethora of theories and models that lay more emphasis on how lexical specifi cations restrict the applicability domain of grammatical rules. This implies that lexical patterning plays a more central role in language structure than was recognized in traditional and mainstream linguistics (for an overview of this topic, the reader is referred to Wotjak 2006). In general, the boldest statements about the interconnection of lexis and grammar have been made in the framework of cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics (see e.g., Hoey 2005; Hunston and Francis 2000; Gries and Stefanowitsch 2006; Langacker 2005; Römer and Schulze 2009; Sinclair 1991).
