on multiword lexical units and their role in maritime dictionaries

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. the work analyses such issues as the classification of multiword lexical units by their form and syntactic/semantic structure. two classes of examples of multiword lexical units are studied and contrasted across a number of languages: true maritime multiword terms and specialized multiword terms which include items from the general lexicon.