University of Rijeka

Faculty of Philosophy
M.A. in Education and Training

Introduction to
LEXICOLOGY & LEXICOGRAPHY
Syllabus
MA Course designed by: Boris Pritchard, 2010

Contents:
A. LEXICOLOGY
B. WORD FORMATION
C. LEXICOGRAPHY
D. TERMINOLOGY/TERMINOGRAPHY

A. LEXICOLOGY

0. INTRODUCTORY: The basic concepts of lexicology and lexicography

References:
1. Jackson, H. (1988): 239-250
2. Jackson & Amvela (2000): 1-20; 161-185
3. Svensen, B. (1990):1-2,
4. Zgusta, L. 1971,
5. Bratani, M. 1989

Topics:
- Introduction to Lexicology, Lexicology Definitions, Structure of English Vocabulary
- Lexicology vs lexicography
- lexicology vs. semantics (branches of linguistics): lexical form lexical item & meaning
- semantics: lexical semantics pragmatic semantics
- lexicography: art of dictionary making; linguistic discipline vs. profession
- lexicography vs terminology
- terminology vs terminography

1. KEY ISSUES & FOUNDATIONS

References:
1. Carter, R. (1998):1-14 (Whats in a word)
2. Jackson, H. (2000)8: 48-68 (The Word)
3. Crystal, D. ( 1995): 118-9 (The nature of the lexicon)
 1.1 definition of a WORD
What is a Word, Word vs. Lexeme, Grammar and Lexical Words (orthographic,
minimum meaningful unit, stress, forms of words)
lexicological metalanguage: word-forms, lexemes, lexical units, mwlu, entry

1.2 lexemes & words

- lexeme as an abstract unit
- word form
- lexeme and polysemy
- lexicological metalanguage: word-forms, lexemes, lexical units, mwlu, entry

1.3 grammatical vs. lexical words: lexical words: open & closed classes
1.4 morphemes: free & bound; morphology of the English language
1.5 word production & creativity
- word formation: inflection, derivation, conversion, compounding
- collocation
- phrases
- metaphor, etc.
1.6 multiple meanings and lexical relations
- polysemy
- antonymy
- homonyms, homophones, homographs
revised definition of a word - lexicological metalanguage: word-forms, lexemes,
lexical units, mwlu, entry
1.7 The structure of the lexicon: introduction (Lipka 2002: 148-186)

2. ORIGIN OF ENGLISH WORDS etymology, lexical borrowing, adding to

the lexicon

References.:
1 1. Jackson, H. (2000): 21-47 (Where do English words come from?)
2 2. Crystal, D. (1995): 135-155 (Etymology)
3 3. Hatch, E & Brown, C. (1995) Part 8 Adding to the lexicon, 170-187
3. EWD, Umbach (WNW), Barnhardt (World Book Dictionary.)

1. Origin of English Vocabulary, History of Vocabulary Development, Native Vocabulary vs.

Loan Vocabulary, Current Situation
2. Origins
3. Borrowed words
- Old Norse / Danish, Norman Conquest 1066 Middle. French, Classical Revival
- Mod. E. (combining words of Lat/Gr origin)
- New World (Spanish, Indian languages)
- Dutch, Spanish, Italian, 2nd World War
- Other (Mod. French, German, Spanish, Swedish), exotic lang.
- Intermediary languages
4. Making new words : Motivated words, Compounding, Derivation, Conversion, Blending,
Clipping, Back formation , Acronyms
5. Etymology proper in dictionary entries
6. Etymlogical Issues in dictionaries (EWD)
7. Method of presentation word origin indicators; etymology in the entry ((Barnhardt,
Umbach/WNW)
8. Nature definition issues : arguing etymologically (Crystal)
 9. Neologistic compounds (Lat & Gr in Mod. E) Orwell Newspeak
10. Semantic change: (other than: euphemism, clich, figurative language)
- extension / genaralisation
- narrowing / specialisation
- amelioration
- pejoration / deterioration
11. Folk etymology

4. WORDS AND MEANING

References:

1. Jackson (1988): 49-63 Words and the world; 79-95 Analysing word meanings
2. Carter (1998): 15-18 Referential meaning; Componential analysis
3. Lyons, J. ( 1977): 174-229 (Reference, sense and denotation)
4. Lyons, J. (1979): 75 89 (The Lexicon)
5. Palmer, F.R, (1981) Semantics
6. Cruse, D. (1986) Lexical Semantics

- referential meaning
- componential analysis
- denotative vs. connotative meaning
- semantic relations

5. LEXICAL RELATIONS / STRUCTURAL SEMANTICS

References:
1. Carter 1998: 19-28; (Structural semantics: Words and other words)
2. Jackson 2000: 91-117; - (Meaning Relations)
3. Crystal 1995: 164-8; (Sense relations: synonyms, antonyms,
hyponyms, incompatibles; parts and wholes, series, hierarchies)
6. Lyons 1977: 270-316 (Structural semantics II sense relations)
7. Hatch, E. 1995, 64- 83 (Relational models in semantics)

The structure of the lexicon: (Lipka 2002: 148-186)

Word, Meaning, Sense, Semantic Triangle, Types of Meaning, Monosemy, Polysemy,
Words in Relations
Synonymy
- antonymy (complementarity, converseness, incompatibility)
(hyponyms vs. supernyms, lexical taxonomies)

6. WORD PATTERNS , Word Combinations

Ref.:
1. Carter, R. 1998: 50-78 (Words and patterns)
2. Jackson, H. 1987: 79.95 (Meaning from Combinations)
3. Crystal, D. 1995: 160 164 (Lexical Structure)

The Lexicon, Lexicon Organization (The structure of the lexicon: (Lipka 2002: 148-186)

 collocations
lexical sets & fields
patterns, ranges, restrictions
idioms fixed expressions

7. The Function of Words - LEXIS AND DISCOURSE Words in Use

References:
Carter, R. 1998: 79-114
Jackson (2000) 118-142
Singleton 2000)
Crystal, D. (1995) : 171 - 177

- lexical cohesion
- anaphoric nounns
- lexis and coherence
- lexis and genre
- lexical dimensions (connotation, taboo, swearing, jargon, political correctness
- co-text, context and the mental lexicon; resolution of polysemy, semantic decomposition, ,
cognitive linguistics and experience (categorization and psychology; frames, scripts and
events)

8. CORE VOCABULARY

References:
Carter, R. 1998: 34-46 (Core Vocabulary);
Carter, R. 1998: 236-238 (Core Vocabulary and language study: back to the core)
Carter, R. 1998: 275-279 (Case study 9.4)

9. LEXIS AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

References:
Carter, R. 1998: 184-238 (Learning and teaching vocabulary)
Hatch, E. 1995: 376-400

- childs acquisition of vocabulary

- concrete-abstract progression, generalizations
- what is a difficult word?
- The Birkbeck Vocabulary Project
- Word lists
- Words in context
- Word sets and grids
- Vocabulary for advanced learners
- Cloze and its uses

10. NAMES

References:
Hatch, E. 1995: 170- 185
Crystal, D. 1995: 140-155 (Names)
 (a) place names UK / US (New World), streets
(b) personal names: surnames, first names, nicknames, pseudonyms
(c) object names

11. THE VOCABULARY OF COMMUNICATION SIGNALS AND SPEECH

ACTS

References
Hatch, E. 1995: 329-362

- Communication signals (Open/close signals, back-channel signals, turn-taking signals,

acoustically adequate and interpretable messages, non-participant constraints, Gricean
norms, framing or bracket signals
- The lexicon of speech acts and speech events

12. LEXICON OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

References:
Hatch, E. (1995): 86-114

- figurative language
- Idioms, Proverbs, Clichs
- metaphor as a universal process
- literary and conceptual metaphor
- social models of metaphor, etc.
B. WORD FORMATION

Root, stem, base,

Morpheme, Morph, Allomorph inflection,
derivation: affixation
conversion,
Compounding (Compound Lexemes, Class Maintaining and Class Changing Compounds,
Compound Nouns, Compound Verbs)
Adjectives, Compound Adverbs, Rhyme, Ablaut and Neo-Classical Compounds
Prefixation
Suffixation
Conversion, infixes
Clipping
Blends
Backformation
Acronyms
Onomatopoeia
Eponyms
Toponyms
Word creation,
Fixed Expressions,

References:
Quirk et al. (1995) A Grammar of Contemporary English, London: Arnold
Hatch, E. (1995): 189-209 (Processes in word building)
C. LEXICOGRAPHY
1. LEXICOGRAPHY BASIC PRINCIPLES

References:
Landau (2001): What is a dictionary? 1-6
Sterkenburg (2003) 3-17
Jackson (2001)
Carter, R. (1998): 150-177 (Lexis and lexicography)

- lexis and lexicography

- dictionary and encyclopaedia
- dictionary information categories (formal/morphological, syntagmatic/combinational,
semantic, encyclopedic, pragmatic)
- dictionary structure / organisation

2. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY

References:
Jackson, H. (2000): 79-95 (Why dictionaries?)
Landau (2001): 43-97 (A brief history of English lexicography)

- before Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
- The New English Dictionary (OED, W3)

3. KEY ELEMENTS OF DICTIONARIES

Landau (2001): 98-153)

4. DICTIONARY USERS

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 9-39
Bogaards (in Sterkenburg 2003) 26-33
Jackson, H. (1987): 79-95 (Who uses a dictionary for what?)

- users demands
- user-friendliness

5. LEXICOGRAPHIC DEFINITION

References:
Landau (2001): Definition (153-216)
Geeraerts (in Sterkenburg 2003) 83-93
Svensen, B. (1993) : 112-139
Jackson, H. (2001): 126-141
Carter, R. (1998): 152-154

- Logical, scientific, lexicographic definition

 - establishing separate meanings
- methods of defining
- paraphrases
- true definitions
- supports for definition
- defining vocabulary

6. TYPES OF DICTIONARIES

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 9-39
Jackson, H. (2001): 157-173

- General-purpose vs. specialist dictionary

- Monolingual vs bilingual vs multilingual (erba: the four types of dictionaries)
- alphabetical vs. non-alphabetical
- user demands & expectations
- users competence (for using the dictionary)
- criteria/dimensions in dictionary typology: prescriptive vs. descriptive, synchronic vs.
diacronic, mono- vs. bilingual, general vs. technical, learners, size (pocket, collegiate, desk,
W3, OED, special etc.

LEARNERS DICTIONARIES

References:
- Jackson, H. (1987): 174-191 (Especially for the learner

7. USAGE - PRAGMATIC INFORMATION IN DICTIONARIES

References:
Landau (2001) 217-272)102-113
Burkhanov (in Sterkenburg 2003)
Svensen, B. (1993) : 181-188; 163-166; 167-180; 194-188
Jackson, H. (1987): 152-156

- implicit & explicit pragmatic information

- subject field, register, mode, tenor
- examples
- explanations
- encyclopaedic information
- illustrations, etc.
- cross-references
- labels etc.

Svensen, B. (1993) : 40-63 (The collection and selection of material)

Jackson, H. (1987): 224-238 (The craft of lexicography)

- authenticity evidence
- sources and their use
 - representativeness corpora, coverage
- suitability user-friendliness
- pedagogical role, social role
- encyclopedic elements

8. HEADWORDS

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 64-68; 200-209
OALD, LDOCE, COBUILD, CIDE, W3, WNW, RH, OED

- headword vs. dictionary entry, homographs

- headword vs. entry (200-209)
- multi-word lexical units
- typographical form
- functions
- grammatical form
- special types of headwords

9. PHONOLOGICAL INFORMATION

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) :

10. GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 74-97 (Inflection; Parts of Speech; Constructions)
Jackson, H. (1987): 142-156

11. TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES

References:
Bejoint,
Svensen, B. (1993) : 140-162

- equivalence
- types of equivalence
- discrimination of meaning,
- format
- arrangement of meaning, etc.

12. MACROSTRUCTURE & MICROSTRUCTURE

References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 210-229

13. LEXICAL SETS & COLLOCATIONS & IDIOMS

 References:
Svensen, B. (1993) : 98-111
Jackson, H. (1987): 96-110; 208-223
Carter, R. (1998): 50-78

- lexical/semantic fields
- non-alphabetical dictionaries
- thematic lexicography (conceptual, thesauri, thematic, combinatorial)

14. DICTIONARY MAKING COLLECTION AND SELECTION OF

MATERIAL THE CRAFT OF LEXICOGRAPHY

References:
Landau (2001) 343 401
Sinclair 1991

15. CORPUS LEXICOGRAPHY - DICTIONARY PROJECTS

References:
www
Sterkenburg (2003) chapters: 4, 5, 6, 7
Biber etc. (2000)
Sinclair (1991)
Sterkenburg (2003)
Svensen, B. (1993) : 236-249

16. DICTIONARIES IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE

References:
www
Carter, R. (1998): 150-183
Svensen, B. (1993) : 250-271

- machine-readable dictionaries
- on-line dictionaries
- lexical databases
- corpus linguistics and lexicographic corpora
- concordances
- lexical density
- lexical measurements
- collocational and semantic software, etc.
D. TERMINOLOGY/TERMINOGRAPHY
References:
Cabr, T.
Sager, J.
Rey,
Mihaljevi, M.
Bratani, M.
REFERENCES:
Cabr, T. (1999) Terminology, Theory, methods and applications. John Benjamins Publ.
Carter (1998) Vocabulary, London: Routledge
Jackson, H.& E. Z Amvela (2000) Words, Meaning and Vocabulary (An Introduction to
Modern English Lexicology), Continuum, London
Jackson, H. (2002) An Introduction to Lexicography, Routledge
Landau, S. (2001) Dictionaries, The Art and Craft of Lexicography. Cambridge

FURTHER REFERENCES

Bauer, L. (1983) English Word Formation. Cambridge UP

Bjoint, H. (2004), Modern Lexicography: An Introduction (Paperback), Oxford Linguistics
Biber, D., Conrad, S. Reppen,. (2000) Corpus Linguistics, Cambridge UP
Bratani, M. (1989) Rjenik i kultura, Zagreb, Filozofski fakultet
Cruse, D. (1986) Lexical Semantics, CUP
Crystal, D. (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, CUP
Hatch, E. (1995), Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education, CUP
Hudeek, L. Mihaljevi, M. (2009) Hrvatski terminoloki prirunik, Institut za hrvatski jezik
Jackson (1988) Words and their Meaning, London: Longman
Mathews, P.H. (1993) Morphology. Cambridge UP
Marello, C. (1989). Dizionari bilingui con schede sui dizionari italiani per francese, inglese,
spagnolo, tedesco. Bologna: Zanichelli
Lipka, L. (2002) Lexicology, G. Narr verlag, Tuebingen
Lyons, J. (1977) Semantics vol. I, II, CUP
Palmer, F.R, (1981) Semantics, CUP
Piotrowski, Tadeusz Problems in bilingual lexicography, Wrocaw 1994
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.122.3744...
Quirk et al. (1995) A Grammar of Contemporary English, London: Arnold
Sager, J. (1990) A Practical Course in Terminology Processing. John Benjamins Publ.
Singleton, D. (2000) Language and the lexicon, Arnold Publ.
Sterkenburg, van, P.(2003 Aguide to Lexicography. John Benjamins Publ.
Svensen, B. (1993) Practical Lexicography, OUP
Zgusta, L. (1971) Manual of Lexicography, The Hague, Mouton

- English/American/Australian monolingual dictionaries

- English-Croatian and Croatian-English dictionaries
- INTERNET: web-sites on lexicology, lexicography, terminology, corpus linguistics and
dictionaries
- monolingual and bilingual dictionary corpora (BNC, HNK, LOB, etc.)
Exam Requirements and Prerequisites
Students will be graded on participation in the courses, active involvement,
one test and one essay.
1. Participation - Three or more absences result in zero classification.
2. Essay Four- page essay with theoretical and practical ideas on a select
topic. The essay is written at home and sent through the Internet. The essays
will be presented in groups (up to 4 presenetations in a class unit/45'). The
peparation for essays and topic assignments will be made in week two of the
course whereas oral presentations of the essays start in week five of the
course). The essay must be sent in no later than May 15th.
3. Test In the test problem questions will be raised and emphasis given on
understanding of Problems. The test takes place in week 12.
4. The final grade will be an average result of participation (10%), the test
(30%), essay (30%), and oral presentation of the essay (30%).