I-IV -- Contents -- The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?) -- The 1995 English learners' dictionaries - bibliographical references -- I. The new generation of English learners' dictionaries: historical background - assessment of specific features - the perspective of the user -- Learners' dictionaries in a historical and a theoretical perspective -- Syntactic information in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE -- Word complementation in English learners' dictionaries - a quantitative study of CIDE, COBUILD2, LDOCE3 and OALD5 -- Exemplification in EFL dictionaries -- The treatment of meaning in learners' dictionaries - and others -- Compound nouns in learners' dictionaries -- The treatment of collocations in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE -- Access structures of learners' dictionaries -- Lexical units, suffixation, suffixes in OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2 and CIDE -- The treatment of international varieties -- Lexical evolution and learners' dictionaries -- Political correctness in learners' dictionaries -- The advanced learners' dictionary: syntax cum semantics -- Classroom experience with the new dictionaries: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE -- Teachers' demands on learners' dictionaries -- II. Learners' dictionaries - other dictionaries -- Semiotaxis and learners' dictionaries -- Encyclopedic learners' dictionaries -- On some differences between English and German (with respect to lexicography) -- Designing an English Valency Dictionary: combining linguistic theory and user-friendliness -- III. Dictionaries - corpora - perspectives -- Coverage of spoken English in relation to learners' dictionaries, especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English -- Needles and haystacks, idioms and corpora: Gaining insights into idioms, using corpus analysis -- Corpora and dictionaries -- Moving towards perfection: The learners' (electronic) dictionary of the future -- Appendix: German and French abstracts