See Mel'cuk, Igor A., and Alexander K. Zholkovsky, Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremennovo russkovo jazyka, Vienna, 1984 ('Explanatory combinatorial dictionary of modern Russian', which includes an introduction in English explaining its basic principles.) Also see Mel'cuk, Igor et al., Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1984. (First of a series: three further volumes were published, in 1988, 1992, and 1999.)