This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies, lexical borrowing, word origins and change, place and personal names, word acquisition and bilingualism, and word games and puzzles.
This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies, lexical borrowing, word origins and change, place and personal names, word acquisition and bilingualism, and word games and puzzles.
John R. Taylor obtained his PhD in 1979 and was Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Otago until his retirement in 2010. He is the author of Possessives in English (1996), Cognitive Grammar (2002), Linguistic Categorization (3rd edition 2003), and The Mental Corpus (2012; paperback 2014), all published by Oxford University Press, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics (2014). He is a managing editor for the series Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter) and an Associate Editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.
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* Introduction * PART I WORDS: GENERAL ASPECTS * 1: David Crystal: The lure of words * 2: Adam Kilgarriff: How many words are there? * 3: Marc Alexander: Words and dictionaries * 4: Christian Kay: Words and thesauri * 5: Joseph Sorell: Word frequencies * 6: Peter Gryzbek: Word length * 7: Rosamund Moon: Multi-word items * 8: Michael Hoey: Words and their neighbours * PART II WORDS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY * 9: Geert E. Booij: The structure of words * 10: Mark C. Smith: Word categories * 11: Nikolas Gisborne: The word and syntax * 12: Kristine A. Hildebrandt: The prosodic word * 13: Andrew Hippisley: The word as a universal category * 14: Kate Burridge: Taboo words * 15: G. Tucker Childs: Sound symbolism * PART III MEANINGS, REFERENTS, AND CONCEPTS * 16: Nick Riemer: Word meaning * 17: Barbara C. Malt: Words as names for objects, actions, relations, and properties * 18: Marie-Claude L'Homme: Terminologies and taxonomies * 19: Christiane Fellbaum: Lexical relations * 20: Asifa Majid: Comparing lexicons cross-linguistically * 21: Cliff Goddard: Words as carriers of cultural meaning * PART IV WORDS IN TIME AND SPACE * 22: Philip Durkin: Etymology * 23: Dirk Geeraerts: How words and vocabularies change * 24: Anthony P. Grant: Lexical borrowing * 25: Margaret E. Winters: Lexical layers * PART V WORDS IN THE MIND * 26: Simon de Deyne and Gert Storms: Word associations * 27: Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot: Accessing words from the mental lexicon * 28: John N. Williams: The bilingual lexicon * 29: Dennis Tay: Words and neuropsychological disorders * PART VI WORDS IN ACQUISITION LEARNING * 30: Eve V. Clark: First words * 31: Katharine Graf Estes: How infants find words * 32: Reese M. Heitner: Roger Brown's 'original word game' * 33: Paul Nation: Which words do you need? * 34: Frank Boers: Words in second language learning and teaching * PART VII NAMES * 35: John M. Anderson: Names * 36: Benjamin Blount: Personal names * 37: Carole Hough: Place and other names * 38: Robert Kennedy: Nicknames * 39: Cynthia Whissell: Choosing a name: how name givers' feelings influence their selections * PART VIII FUN WITH WORDS * 40: Victor Raskin: Funny words: verbal humour * 41: Henk J. Verkuyl: Word puzzles * A FINAL WORD * 42: Alison Wray: Why are we so sure we know what a word is? * References * Index of Languages * Subject Index
* Introduction * PART I WORDS: GENERAL ASPECTS * 1: David Crystal: The lure of words * 2: Adam Kilgarriff: How many words are there? * 3: Marc Alexander: Words and dictionaries * 4: Christian Kay: Words and thesauri * 5: Joseph Sorell: Word frequencies * 6: Peter Gryzbek: Word length * 7: Rosamund Moon: Multi-word items * 8: Michael Hoey: Words and their neighbours * PART II WORDS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY * 9: Geert E. Booij: The structure of words * 10: Mark C. Smith: Word categories * 11: Nikolas Gisborne: The word and syntax * 12: Kristine A. Hildebrandt: The prosodic word * 13: Andrew Hippisley: The word as a universal category * 14: Kate Burridge: Taboo words * 15: G. Tucker Childs: Sound symbolism * PART III MEANINGS, REFERENTS, AND CONCEPTS * 16: Nick Riemer: Word meaning * 17: Barbara C. Malt: Words as names for objects, actions, relations, and properties * 18: Marie-Claude L'Homme: Terminologies and taxonomies * 19: Christiane Fellbaum: Lexical relations * 20: Asifa Majid: Comparing lexicons cross-linguistically * 21: Cliff Goddard: Words as carriers of cultural meaning * PART IV WORDS IN TIME AND SPACE * 22: Philip Durkin: Etymology * 23: Dirk Geeraerts: How words and vocabularies change * 24: Anthony P. Grant: Lexical borrowing * 25: Margaret E. Winters: Lexical layers * PART V WORDS IN THE MIND * 26: Simon de Deyne and Gert Storms: Word associations * 27: Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot: Accessing words from the mental lexicon * 28: John N. Williams: The bilingual lexicon * 29: Dennis Tay: Words and neuropsychological disorders * PART VI WORDS IN ACQUISITION LEARNING * 30: Eve V. Clark: First words * 31: Katharine Graf Estes: How infants find words * 32: Reese M. Heitner: Roger Brown's 'original word game' * 33: Paul Nation: Which words do you need? * 34: Frank Boers: Words in second language learning and teaching * PART VII NAMES * 35: John M. Anderson: Names * 36: Benjamin Blount: Personal names * 37: Carole Hough: Place and other names * 38: Robert Kennedy: Nicknames * 39: Cynthia Whissell: Choosing a name: how name givers' feelings influence their selections * PART VIII FUN WITH WORDS * 40: Victor Raskin: Funny words: verbal humour * 41: Henk J. Verkuyl: Word puzzles * A FINAL WORD * 42: Alison Wray: Why are we so sure we know what a word is? * References * Index of Languages * Subject Index
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