En torno a la definición lexicográfica

Abstract

From all the text that form the article of a dictionarv, it corresponds to the lexicographical definition itself all that remains once we remove all the cronological, dialectal, social or expressive indications that the dictionary manes about the word we are considering.To study the formal aspects of a lexicographical definition it is important to understand the technological, and not scientific, nature of the dictionary.On the other hand, we must consider that works which need continuous reviews because it is difficult to organize thousands of autonomous cells without making mistakes and because the described object modifies itself very quickly. If the articles were related among themselves too close, any of the small modifications made on the dictionary would lead us to a general modification of it, and that would be negative. An important source of misunderstandings and problerns for a lexicographer is the metalanguage in which the definitions are expressed. Another apparently unsolvable problem that lexicographer find is the one about circular definitions.