PECULIARITIES OF THE PRESENTATION OF GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORD IN THE NEW “ACADEMIC EXPLANATORY DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE”

 The article deals with some peculiarities of the presentation of grammatical information about the word in the new “Academic explanatory dictionary of the Russian language”, which is one of the medium-sized explanatory dictionaries of Russian. The peculiarities under discussion distinguish the dictionary from previous four-volume “Dictionary of the Russian language” (so called “Small academic dictionary”), published by the Academy of Sciences in the early 1980s. Grammatical information about the word is contained in “Academic explanatory dictionary of the Russian language” in two parts of the dictionary entry — the zones of grammatical forms and grammatical characteristics. The dictionary provides more complete, obvious and consecutive information than the dictionary-predecessor. These qualities are achieved due to both systematic use of traditional lexicographic tools and the putting into operation of new tools and ways of description (for example the new label “одуш.”, i.e. “animate” is used). In particular, in the dictionary are consistently described: the presence of some grammatical word forms (for example short forms of adjectives), grammatical restrictions (in the case of some verbs — the lack of first and second person forms), peculiarities of syntactic government etc. The examples given in the article point out the need to improve the traditional grammatical description of vocabulary in development of the new explanatory dictionary of the Russian language