Juri Apresjan unites theoretical linguistics and lexicography to produce a series of dazzling insights into lexical analysis which will be of equal interest to lexicologists, lexicographers, and those concerned with semantic and lexical theory.

Professor Ju. Apresjan is Head of the Department of Theoretical Semantics, Russian Language Institute, RAS, and Principal Researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS.
Dr Kevin Windle is Reader in the Department of Classical and Modern European Languages, Australian National University.

• Introduction


• Part I: Problems of Synonymy


• Chapter 1: English Synonyms and a Dictionary of Synonyms


• Chapter 2: Types of Information in a Dictionary of Synonyms


• Chapter 3: The Picture of Man as Reflected in Linguistic Data: An attempt at a systematic description


• Chapter 4: The Synonymy of Mental Predicates: schitat' [to consider] and its synonyms


• Chapter 5: The Problem of Factivity: znat' [to know] and its synonyms


• Chapter 6: Khotet' [to want] and its synonyms: Notes about words


• Part II: Systematic Lexicography


• Chapter 7: Metaphor in the Semantic Representation of Emotions


• Chapter 8: On the Language of Explications and Semantic Primitives


• Chapter 9: Lexicographic Portraits


• Chapter 10: A Lexicographic Portrait of the Verb vyiti [to emerge, come out]


• References