An Introduction to English Lexicology: Words, Meaning and Vocabulary

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Epigraph
Contents
Figures
Exercises
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1 What is Lexicology?
	1.1 Lexicology defined
	1.2 Lexicology as a level of language analysis
	1.3 The structure of English vocabulary
2 The Word
	2.1 The notion of word
	2.2 Word meaning
	2.3 Polysemy
	2.4 Homonymy
	2.5 Multiword lexemes
3 Word Formation
	3.1 Why study word-formation processes?
	3.2 Inflection and derivation
	3.3 Inflectional affixes
	3.4 Derivational affixes
	3.5 Compounds
	3.6 Other word-formation processes
4 Where Do English Words Come From?
	4.1 The origin of English
	4.2 Historical development of English vocabulary
	4.3 Native English vocabulary
	4.4 The process of borrowing
	4.5 Characteristics of modern English vocabulary
5 Meaning Relations
	5.1 What are ‘meaning relations’?
	5.2 Synonymy
	5.3 Antonymy
	5.4 Hyponymy and meronymy
	5.5 Semantic fields
	5.6 Collocation
6 Words in Use
	6.1 Vocabularies
	6.2 National and regional vocabularies
	6.3 Jargon
	6.4 Subcultures
	6.5 Style
	6.6 Restricted languages
7 Investigating Vocabulary
	7.1 What might we want to find out?
	7.2 How do we find out?
	7.3 Electronic resources
	7.4 Tools of analysis
	7.5 MRDs, LDBs and LKBs
	7.6 World Wide Web
8 Words in Dictionaries
	8.1 Repositories of words
	8.2 Information about words
	8.3 How do dictionaries decide?
	8.4 Meaning
	8.5 Dictionaries and vocabulary
	8.6 Lexicology and lexicography
Key to Exercises
References
Glossary
Index