Verbgrammatikk i islandske tospråklige ordbøker med islandsk som kildespråk

Resumé

This paper describes how information on Icelandic syntax appears in the entries for
verbs in some of the more important of bilingual Icelandic dictionaries, i.e. whether
syntactic information is given explicitly or expected to be deduced from examples.
The interplay of syntactic and semantic features in the microstructure of the
dictionaries is also looked at. The conclusion is that the syntactic description of verbs
in bilingual Icelandic dictionaries is in many ways primitive, largely due to
insufficient distinction between syntactic constructions, collocations, examples, and
phrasal entries in the dictionary texts. These factors are appraised, taking other
lexicographic traits in the dictionaries into account, and considered in the perspective
of the state of the art of lexicography in Iceland in general.