Microstructure (lexicography)

In lexicography and encyclopedia in a dictionary or comparable reference work, microstructure is the linearly ordered set of information that follows the lemma . The main part is the meaning part with definitions and explanations of meanings, syntactic and semantic dependencies of context partners as well as naming synonyms and antonyms . A further distinction is made between the concrete and the abstract hierarchical microstructure.

The definition of the term microstructure is controversial; Sun expects Hausmann all information about a lemma and the lemma even the microstructure, while Rey-Debove thus referred only linearly ordered set of data that follow the lemma.

See also

• Mesostructure (lexicography)
• Macrostructure (lexicography)
• Explication

literature

• Franz Josef Hausmann : Lexicography . In: Schwarze, Christoph and Wunderlich, Dietrich (ed.). Handbook of Lexicology. Königstein / Ts .: Athenaeum, 1985, pp. 367-398