Lexicon

The resource includes a systematic listing of lexical items.

This term is an expected value of the property: linguisticGenre

This term is included in the defined term set: LinguisticGenreTerms

OLAC lists subtypes as follows:

• Dictionary This includes any resource that lists words or morphemes and defines them. It contrasts with a word list in that the definitions are complex (rather than being one-word equivalents) and the entries may include other information like part of speech, related words, and illustrative sentences.

• Wordlist A word list is a list of reference words in a major language for which the nearest equivalent word in a target language has been elicited (for instance, the Swadesh 100-word list).

• WordNet Whereas a dictionary documents the meanings of words by means of definitions, a word net documents meanings by building a web of semantic relationships [WordNet].

• Thesaurus A thesaurus is a list of words or concepts arranged according to sense.

• Terminology A terminological lexicon is a glossary of domain-specific terms. Examples are technical terminology, kinship terms, color terms, acronyms, ...

• Name Dictionary The resource includes only proper names as dictionary headwords.

• Bilingual Lexicon The resource includes definitions in another language.

• Etymological Lexicon The lexicon contains etymological information.

• Phonetic Lexicon The lexicon contains phonetic information, including pronunciation, phonology, stress, rhymes.

• Frequency Lexicon The lexicon contains frequency information.

• Analytical Lexicon Analytical information includes such things as morphological derivation, grammatically related forms, argument structure, ...