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Revue: Neophilologica

A Pioneering Lexicographic Work: “New Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Synonyms” by Jurij Apresjan

Lidija Iordanskaja

Date de publication: 31-12-2025 | Résumé | p. 1-16

The paper describes an innovative lexicographic product published in Moscow in the late 1990s—
Ju. Apresjan’s New Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Synonyms [NEDRS]. NEDRS is essentially based on Apresjan’s theory of systemic lexicography and integral linguistic description. His introduction to NEDRS proposes several new important linguistic notions, such as lexicographic type, lexicographic portrait (of a lexeme), the dominant of a synonym series, etc. The main characteristic of NEDRS is the wealth and precision of the linguistic information supplied: thus, it specifies the referential and communicative status of the lexeme under consideration and its actants, the type of the speech act expressed, the capacity of constituting an independent utterance, etc.; in particular, it offers meticulous and exact analyses of semantic distinctions between synonyms. Such data were not provided before in other dictionaries. At the same time, NEDRS is extremely reader-friendly.

2025-12-31



Revue: Neophilologica

Classes et relations sémantiques : l’exemple du verbe regarder

Aude Grezka

Date de publication: 31-12-2016 | Résumé | p. 72-97

The subject of this study is to broach the problems associated with polysemy and its treatment on the example of the verb regarder. The traditional lexicographical approach to the polysemy of the verb regarder consists mainly of listing synonyms. A huge disparity emerges among the proposed synonyms. We show here the importance of semantic classes to solve the problems of polysemy and thus treat various uses of the verb regarder. A sufficiently precise description can predict the link between semantics and syntax. The use of “controlled semantics” by the facts of language reflects many correlations among configurational, combinatorial and syntactic features of the verbs and their semantic characteristics.

2016-12-31