| Summary: | Jón Hilmar Jónsson: Orðastaður. Orðbók um íslenska malnotkun. Malog menning. Reykjavik 1994. 698 s.This dictionary is especially designed to show the combinatory properties of words inIcelandic, concentrating on the three big word classes: nouns, verbs and adjectives.The author describes their syntactical use and collocations and their ability to enterinto compounds. On the whole, the dictionary is highly commendable. The presentreviewer mainly objects to its use of boxes, which are filled with heterogeneous kindsof comment, whereas different types of information are otherwise given distinctgraphic expressions.
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