What are words? Where do words come from? How are they used? Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through the key concepts in the lexicology

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 disc

A linguistic introduction to the structures and meanings of English words Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their or

This book gathers some of the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography, which span from research on language for specific purposes to the study of lexic