The course aims to make the students aware of the basic concepts related to

lexicology and lexicography. It also aims to enrich students vocabulary and

introduce them to the process of word-formation and compiling and editing
dictionaries.Course Type:

(Compulsory/Core/Elective)

ElectivePre-requisites

General reading of the topics like Lexis, Lexicology & LexicographyGoals

The students will develop in-depth understanding of key concepts in lexicology and
lexicography.
The students will be able to take issues of word-structure critically and conduct
practical thinking and analysis of our native languages like Urdu & Punjabi.

Text Book

Plag, Ingo (2003) Word-Formation in English, Cambridge University Press.

Downloadable from the link:

http://englishstudentsforum.com/uploads/Vocabulary/advance/Word_Formation_In_Englis
h.pdf

Or download from the website: www.uogenglish.wordpress.comAdditional Readings

Fontenelle, T. (Ed.), (2008). Practical Lexicography: A Reader. Oxford University

Press.

Hoey, M. (1991). Patterns of Lexis in Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jackson, H. (1989). Words and their Meanings. London: Longman.

Jackson, H. (2002). Lexicography: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Lipka, Leonhard (1992), An outline of English lexicology. Lexical structure, ward

semantics, and word-formation, 2nd ed, Tubingen:Niemeyer

Downloadable from the link: http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5104/1/5104.pdfLectures

32 sessions of 45 minutes each

Attendance Policy

A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be eligible to take the

final examination.
The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course shall be given the
grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course and shall not be allowed to take its
End Term Exams and will have to reappear in the course to get the required
attendance to be eligible to sit in the exam when the course is offered the next
time.Grading

The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following percentage:

Mid Term 25%

Sessional work 25%
Presentation/Practical 10%
Assignment/Practical 10%
Quizzes 05%
Final term 50%

Session Schedule

Sessions/ Lectures

Topics

Suggested Readings

1 & 2 An Introduction to Lexical Studies

Basic Concepts:

Lexicology, Lexicography, Lexeme, Lexis

Definition of a word (orthographic, minimum meaningful unit, stress, forms of

words)

Studying word-formation

Inflection and derivation1st Chapter of the Text Book

Please see above to find the name of the textbook and its downloadable links3&
4Multi-word Lexemes/Complex words

Identifying morphemes; Allomorphy

Problems with the morpheme: the mapping of form and meaning

Establishing word-formation rules

Multiple affixation2nd Chapter of the Text Book5&6What is an affix?

How to investigate affixes: more on methodology

General properties of English affixation

Suffixes

Prefixes

Infixation4th Chapter of the Text Book7&8Derivation without affixation

Conversion

The directionality of conversion

Conversion or zero-affixation?5th Chapter of the Text Book

9&10Conversion: syntactic or morphological?

Prosodic morphology

diminutives and clippings

Blends5th Chapter of the Text Book

11&12Productivity and the mental lexicon

Introduction: what is productivity?

Possible and actual words

Complex words in the lexicon

3rd Chapter of the Text Book

13&14Measuring productivity

Constraining productivity

Pragmatic restrictions

Structural restrictions

Blocking

3rd Chapter of the Text Book

15&16Compounding

Recognizing compounds

What are compounds made of?

More on the structure of compounds: the notion of head

Stress in compounds

6th Chapter of the Text Book

17&18Presentations & Mid Term Examination 19&20An inventory of compounding
patterns
Nominal compounds

Headedness

Interpreting nominal compounds

6th Chapter of the Text Book

21&22Adjectival compounds

Verbal compounds

Neoclassical compounds

Compounding: syntax or morphology?

6th Chapter of the Text Book

23&24Lexicography; Kinds of Dictionaries

Historical Background of Lexicography

Types of Dictionaries: General, Academic, Referential Dictionaries

Compiling Dictionaries

Role of Users need and Prior Knowledge in Compiling DictionariesTeachers notes

Or visit www.uogenglish.wordpress.com25&26Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction

Corpus as a source of Lexicography

Selection of Corpus Data for Lexicography

Corpus Data Preparation

Introduction to some online corpora (BNC, CoBUILD etc)Teachers notes

Or visit www.uogenglish.wordpress.com

27&28Language Varieties, Language Shift

Lexical Shift

Analysis of the Lexis of Pakistani English Newspapers

Semantic and Grammatical features of Pakistani English (borrowing of Urdu

inflections in word formation, use of English Lexis in their indigenous meanings,
etc)Teachers notes

Or visit www.uogenglish.wordpress.com29&30Presentations & Quiz 31&32Revision

Discussion on Assignments
Proposed Assignments:

Students can be asked to visit BNC or CoBuild online to search a given word (words)
in concordance. From the concordance data they can describe semantic and
grammatical features of the word.
Students may study Pakistani Newspaper English to find the inflectional borrowings,
compounding and the semantic features of different lexical items (Hint: Assembly-
wala, Taliban-ism, Thana-culture)
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