Diagrammatic Representation of Four Categories of English Dictionaries<BR><BR>

�@�@Bejoint (1994: 32) states,�gThe basic question for anyone who attempts a typology is whether to derive categories from the observation of existing dictionaries or to create categories in theory and then see how existing dictionaries fit into them. Strictly speaking, the former would be a classification and the latter a typology." My intention of this paper is not to attempt a typology of English dictionaries from a purely theoretical viewpoint but to classify them from a historical point of view and represent them diagrammatically.