The perfect learners' dictionary (?)

Contents: I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background, assessment of features, user perspective: Anthony P. Cowie discusses historical and theoretical perspectives. Flor Aarts examines syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, and CIDE. Michael Klotz conducts a quantitative study on word complementation in these dictionaries. Gabriele Stein explores exemplification in EFL dictionaries. Robert F. Ilson addresses the treatment of meaning. Henri Béjoint focuses on compound nouns, while Brigitta Mittmann analyzes collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, and CIDE. Paul Bogaards looks at access structures, and Kerstin Popp studies lexical units and suffixation. David Heath discusses international varieties, and John Ayto covers lexical evolution. Klaus-Dieter Barnickel tackles political correctness, and André Moulin presents the Advanced Learners' Dictionary: syntax and semantics. Gisela Böhner shares classroom experiences, and Burkhard Dammann outlines teacher demands. II. Learners' dictionaries vs. other dictionaries: Franz-Josef Hausmann on semiotaxis, Jonathan Crowther on encyclopedic dictionaries, Dieter Götz on English and German lexicography, and Thomas Herbst on linguistic theory and user-friendliness. III. Dictionaries, corpora, perspectives: Della Summers on spoken English coverage, Rosamund Moon on idioms and corpus analysis, Jan Svartvik on corpora and dictionaries, and Geoffrey