Author: aJ. VanaRoey
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: pedagogique, laeinstitut, linguistique, louvain, serie, introduction, english, contrastive, lexicology, french
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 9068312693
ISBN-13: 9789068312690

Authors:Howard Jackson, Amvela,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: lexicology, open, linguistics, english, modern, meaning, vocabulary, introduction, words
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826460968
ISBN-13: 9780826460967

This work goes back to the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines what constitutes a word, with a discussion of words that look and sound the same, words that have several meanings, and "words" that are made up of more than one "word". As well as considering the borrowing of words from other languages throughout the history of English as a means of increasing the vocabulary, the book also outlines how English forms new words by exploiting the structure of existing words, through processes of derivation and compounding. The meaning of a

Author: Rosamund Moon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, studies, lexicography, lexicology, approach, based, expressions, idioms, english, corpus, fixed
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-06-04
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 019823614X
ISBN-13: 9780198236146

This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Moon’s central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed expressions and how they are being used in current English. She argues that examination of the corpus raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new, use-centered, models are required.

Author: Graham D. Caie; Carole Hough; IrenA Wotherspoon (
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: honour, christian, kay, costerus, semantics, lexicology, words, essays, lexicography, power
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9042021217
ISBN-13: 9789042021211

List of Contents: Introduction C. P. BIGGAM: Old English colour lexemes used of textiles in Anglo-Saxon England Julie COLEMAN: Slang terms for money: a historical thesaurus Fiona DOUGLAS and John CORBETT: ’Huv a wee seat, hen’: evaluative terms in Scots Philip DURKIN: Lexical splits and mergers: some difficult cases for the OED Andreas FISCHER: Of ’faederan’ and ’eamas’: avuncularity in Old English Roger LASS and Margaret LAING: $ho:fian{*}/vK2: a LAEME-based lexical study Caroline MACAFEE: The rhyme potential of Scots Terttu NEVALAINEN and He

Author: Leonhard Lipka
Publisher: Narr
Keywords: word, semantics, formation, structure, lexicology, lexical, english
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3823349953
ISBN-13: 9783823349952

Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lexicography, studies, lexicology, oxford, untrodden, oed, pioneers, forest
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-04-20
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0198237847
ISBN-13: 9780198237846

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

Authors:M.A.K. Halliday, Anna CermNBkovNB, Colin Yallop, Wolf
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: linguistics, open, corpus, lexicology
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-06-22
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0826448623
ISBN-13: 9780826448620

Perspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study of words) and cor