Anmeldelse af Pia Virtanen: Zur Geschichte der finnisch-deutschen Lexikographie 1888-1991. Studien zur Makrostruktur

The purpose of the book is on one hand to give a short review of the history ofFinnish-German lexicography and its present state. In this respect it is quitesuccessful. On the other hand it presents its readers with an empirical experiment ofhow to investigate, compare and evaluate the macrostructure in a couple ofdictionaries. In reality the investigation is concemed with the lemmas rather than thewhole macrostructure. The results presented are of no greater value statistically onaccount of the modest number of words included, but the method shown is interestingand could be useful if applied to larger masses of words. Anmeldt værk:Pia Virtanen: Zur Geschichte der finnisch-deutschen Lexikographie1888-1991. Studien zur Makrostruktur. Studien zur zweisprachigenLexikographie 1. red. Herbert Ernst Wiegand. GermanistischeLinguistik 114. Olms. Hildesheim 199