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Jacinto González Cobas
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3974-398X
Vol 50 (2023), Articles, pages 1-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.50.7905
Submitted: 20-08-2021 Accepted: 19-10-2021 Published: 21-03-2023
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Abstract

The new lexicography, which emerged in the last decades of the past century, has led to substantial changes in the way of dealing with the design and elaboration of dictionaries. However, even under this new paradigm, determining the inventory of features that have to shape the definitions of a specific group of words is a matter to which insufficient attention has been paid. In this paper, a combined method (the consultation of corpora and reference dictionaries) is proposed to determine the aspects to be included in the definitions, and this procedure is applied to the names of agricultural tools. This way we intend to advance, as far as possible, on the path of regularity, characteristic of coherence and reliability in the lexicographic field. The data suggest that, in the definitions of the aforementioned type of nouns, of the following features could be included: hyperonym / thematic area / function / description.