Words, Meaning and Vocabulary

Words, Meaning  a n d   Vo cabular y

Words  Meanirnyg   n d   Vecabula A n introduction t o modern

English lexicology

Second edition

Howard Jackson Etienne Zé Amvela

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Contents

4.6 4.7

O t h e r w o r d - f o r m a t i o n   p ro c e s s e s   Summary 

Meaning r e l a t i o n s W h a t   a r e   ‘ m e a n i n g   r e l at i o n s ’ ?   a1 5.2

Synonymy 

5.3

ntonymy  andd   meronymy Hyponymy  an

5.4 5.5

5.6 5.7

Anal ys ing  me aning  C o l l o c at io n  Summary 

6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5

6.6 6.7

113 ‘117 123 131 134

136

Vocabularies

137 141 149 155 160 164 166

in

National and regional vocabularies Jargon Sub-cultures Style Restricted languages Summary

I n v e s t i g a t i n g vocabulary 7.1

105 106 107

use

Words 6.1

99 104

W h a t   m i g h t   w e   w a nt   t o   f i n d   o u t ?  

167 168

7.2 7.3

7A 7.5

7.6 7.7

MRDs,  LDBs  a n d   LKBs

169 171 176 182

Summary 

184 186

H o w   d o   w e  f i n d   o u t ?   E l e c t r o n i c   r es o u r c es   Tools  of analysis 

Words 8.1 8.2 8.3 6.4 8.5

8.6 8.7

in

dictionaries

Repositories o f words Information about words How d o d i c t i o n a r i e s decide?

Meaning

Dictionaries and vocabulary Lexicology a n d lexicography Summary

187 168 193 203 210 213 215 216

Key t o exercises

217

Refer enc es

230

Glossary

241

Index

247 24 7

L i s t of f i g u r e s

Chapter 1 :

Chapter 6 :

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.3

The word and i t s associative f i e l d Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations ( a ) Lexical f i e l d s i n t h e t o t a l vocabulary ( b ) Example o f a l e x i c a l f i e l d 6 . 1 The vecabulary o f English according t o t h e OED 6 . 2 The c i r c l e o f World English

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List  of  exercises 

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Chapter

1:

1 / 1   The  scope  o f   lexi colo gy 

1/2  1/3  1/4  1/5 

Chapter 2 :

Et y mo l o g y   nc es   Devi ant  s ente Wo r d  s e t s Wo r d  c l a s s e s  

2 / 1   D e f i n i t i o n   o f   ‘ En g l i s h ’ 2 / 2   O l d  E n g l i s h  

2 / 3   M i ddl e   En g l i s h  

Chapter 3 :

Chapter 4 :

Chapter 5 :

2 / 4   E a r l y   M o d e r n   En g l i s h 2 / 5   Meaning  c h a n g e   2 / 6   Words   o f   O F  o r i g i n   2 / 7   Borrowed  w o r d s   2 / 8   O r i g i n a l   language  3 / 1   C o u n t i n g   ‘ wo r ds ’   3 / 2   Mu l t i p l e   me anings   3 / 3   Co n n o t a t i o n  

3/4  3/3  3/ 6  4/1  4/2 

Po l y s e my   Homonymy  a n d   p o l y s o m y  

Defi ning   ‘ w o r d ’ Morpheme  a n a l y s i s Inflections  4 / 3 Derivational  a ffix e s   4 / 4   Compound nds s  4 / 5 New  w o r d s   5 / 1   Synonym  e s s a y  

5 / 2   Dis ti ng ui shi ng   5 / 3   Antony ms   5 / 4   Hyponymy  5 / 5   Meronymy 

s ynonyms  

Chapter 6 :

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5/6  5/7  5/8  6/1 6/2 6/3 

Co mp o n e n t i a l   a n a l y s i s   Se mantic   f i e l d s   Co l l o c a t i o n Di alect  wo r ds   S p e c i a l i s t wo r ds   Rhyming  s l a n g