Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Supplementary Volume : Recent Developments with Special Focus on Computational Lexicography. An Outline of the Project

The trilingual encyclopedia Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography (edited by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta) was published between 1989–1991 in three volumes, consisting of a total of 335 articles divided into 38 chapters and printed on 3355 pages including the index. The envisaged supplementary volume which will be published in English will consist of 22 chapters, containing 136 articles. This will not exceed 1360 pages. The supplementary volume pursues the objectives formulated in the preface of the first volume (HSK 5.1) which are complemented by others, following from the practice-internal and theoretical developments of the last 15 years. With the supplementary volume it is consequently endeavoured to achieve the following objectives :