Contents: I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background - assessment of specific features - the perspective of the user: Anthony P. Cowie, Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective. - Flor Aarts, Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. - Michael Klotz, Word complementation in English learners' dictionaries: A quantitive study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5. - Gabriele Stein, Exemplification in EFL dictionaries. - Robert F. Ilson, The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries - and others. - Henri Béjoint, Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries. - Brigitta Mittmann, The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. - Paul Bogaards, Access structures of learners' dictionaries. - Kerstin Popp, Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE. - David Heath, The treatment of international varieties. - John Ayto, Lexical evolution and learners' dictionaries. - Klaus-Dieter Barnickel, Political correctness in learners' dictionaries. - André Moulin, The Advanced Learners' Dictionary: syntax cum semantics. - Gisela Böhner, Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE. - Burkhard Dammann, Teacher's demands on learners' dictionaries. - II. Learners' dictionaries - other dictionaries: Franz-Josef Hausmann, Semiotaxis and learners' dictionaries. - Jonathan Crowther, Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries. - Dieter Götz, On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography). - Thomas Herbst, The English Valency Dictionary: linguistic theory and user-friendliness. - III. Dictionaries - corpora - perspectives: Della Summers, Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners' dictionaries, especially the »Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English«. - Rosamund Moon, Needless and haystacks, idioms and corpora: gaining insight into idioms, using corpus analysis. - Jan Svartvik, Corpora and dictionaries. - Geoffrey Leech/Hillary Nessi, Moving towards perfection: the learners' (electronic) dictionary of the future.
