Lexicography

Until now, there has been very little research into the use of online dictionaries.

The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to explain and transpose it into another language; their assessment of different linguistic and cultural expressions, and their morphological analyses; and their efforts to find ways of structuring and presenting lexical information.

Este libro es una detallada aproximación a la historia del Diccionario de la Real Academia Española con atención al tratamiento del neologismo, sus fundamentos y evolución a lo largo del siglo XIX.

Yiddish Language Structures presents ten new studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists.

Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking.

Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology.

A thorough rule-based exploration of the major phonological phenomena of English, applying lexical, metrical, and prosodic approaches.

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English.

A comprehensive documentation, based mainly on original research, of the sources of the German dictionaries and vocabularies published between 1600 and 1700.

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English.

This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing.

The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.

This book provides an examination of the academic language found in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) primary-school written input, with a focus on the lexical demands of CLIL textbooks.

Japanische Verb-Verb-Komposita, die aus zwei unabhängigen Verben gebildet werden, werfen die interessante Frage auf, wie sich Interpretation und Argumentstruktur des komplexen Verbs aus den beiden Teilverben systematisch herleiten lassen.

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!

This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991.