W e describe a methodology and associated software system for the construction of a large lexicon from an existing machine-readable (published) dictionary. The lexicon serves as a component of an English morphological and syntactic analyesr and contains entries with grammatical definitionscompatible with the word and sentence grammar employed by the analyser. W e describe a software system with two integrated components. One of these is capable of extracting syntactically rich, theory-neutral lexical templates from a suitable machine-readabh source. .
