SubjectsTerminology & Lexicography / Lexicography
Book series
ISSN 2352-1821
Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice
Edited by Marie-Claude L'Homme and Kyo Kageura
ISSN 1388-8455
Journals
Lingvisticæ Investigationes
International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
Terminology
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication
Edited by Kyo Kageura and Rita Temmerman
ISSN 0929-9971 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9994
Online Resource
Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies
Edited by Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts
Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world.… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] 2026. vi, 333 pp.
Terminology Beyond Terms
Edited by Pius ten Hacken and Rossella Resi
Special issue of Terminology 32:1 (2026) v, 154 pp.
Computational Terminology
Edited by Ayla Rigouts Terryn and Patrick Drouin
Special issue of Terminology 31:1 (2025) v, 170 pp.
Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe
Edited by Rossella Resi and Frieda Steurs
This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in… read more[Handbook of Terminology, 4] 2025. viii, 799 pp.
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley
Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 24] 2025. ix, 678 pp.
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
Terminology, Ideology and Discourse
Edited by Katia Peruzzo and Paola Catenaccio
Special issue of Terminology 30:1 (2024) v, 158 pp.
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology
Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. read more
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
The terminological impact of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond
Edited by Maria-Cornelia Wermuth and Paul Sambre
Special issue of Terminology 29:2 (2023) v, 214 pp.
Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites
Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.
Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge
Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme
The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important topics which have significantly influenced Terminology and its evolution.… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 23] 2022. vii, 598 pp.
The Corporate Terminologist
Kara Warburton
The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions. It describes the needs of large corporations… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 21] 2021. xxiv, 249 pp.
Terminology as a Societal Resource: Possibilities and Responsibilities in a Changing World
Edited by Nina Pilke, Niina Nissilä and Hans Landqvist
Special issue of Terminology 27:1 (2021) vi, 177 pp.
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées
Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.
Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction
Marie-Claude L'Homme
Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 20] 2020. xxi, 263 pp.
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.
Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world
Edited by Abied Alsulaiman and Ahmed Allaithy
The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation… read more[Handbook of Terminology, 2] 2019. vi, 267 pp.
Terminology and e-dictionaries
Edited by Amparo Alcina, Rute Costa and Christophe Roche
Special issue of Terminology 25:2 (2019) v, 152 pp.
Computational terminology and filtering of terminological information
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon, Kyo Kageura and Koichi Takeuchi
Special issue of Terminology 24:1 (2018) v, 147 pp.
Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically… read more
Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Antonio Albaladejo-Martínez
In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and, in many cases, by their opacity. Traditionally, the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 17] 2018. vi, 354 pp.
Food and terminology: Expressing sensory experience in several languages
Edited by Rita Temmerman and Danièle Dubois
Special issue of Terminology 23:1 (2017) vi, 179 pp.
Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Aline Francœur, John Humbley and Aurélie Picton
The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.This reader is built around three themes arranged according to… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 18] 2017. vi, 260 pp.
New Insights into the Semantics of Legal Concepts and the Legal Dictionary
Martina Bajčić
This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology. While legal concepts frame legal knowledge and take center stage in law, the discipline of terminology has traditionally been about concept description. Exploring topics common to both disciplines such as meaning,… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 17] 2017. xi, 222 pp.
Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications
Béatrice Daille
This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that lead to their formation. It… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 19] 2017. xii, 272 pp.
Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech
Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková
A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs
Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, including computer, corpus, variational,… read more[Handbook of Terminology, 1] 2015. xix, 539 pp.
Language and Material Culture
Allison Paige Burkette
This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 38] 2015. xvii, 192 pp.
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Terminology across Languages and Domains
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon and Kyo Kageura
Special issue of Terminology 21:2 (2015) v, 153 pp.
Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication
Edited by Rita Temmerman and Marc Van Campenhoudt
The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 16] 2014. vi, 305 pp.
Lexical semantic approaches to terminology
Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme
Special issue of Terminology 20:2 (2014) v, 161 pp.
Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements
Edited by Jan Radimský and Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:2 (2013) v, 149 pp.
Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach
Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar
The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.
German Colour Terms: A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
William Jervis Jones
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 119] 2013. xiv, 663 pp.
Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Joshua Nash
How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human… read more[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.
Interference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Capturing the distinction between translated vs. original (i.e. non-translated) language varieties holds centre stage in corpus-based translation studies and related fields such as supervised machine learning. A similar question also holds for native vs. proficient non-native speakers' production.… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 27] 2013. v, 134 pp.
Ressources Lexicales: Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation
Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock
Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils et de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 30] 2013. xii, 364 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research
Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury
The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.
Neology in Specialized Communication
Edited by Teresa Cabré, Rosa Estopà and Chelo Vargas-Sierra
Special issue of Terminology 18:1 (2012) v, 148 pp.
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:2 (2012) viii, 261 pp.
Researching Specialized Languages
Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes
The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.
Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation
Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.
The dynamics of terms in specialized communication: An interdisciplinary perspective
Edited by Rita Temmerman and Marc Van Campenhoudt
Special issue of Terminology 17:1 (2011) v, 180 pp.
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. Third edition revised by Robert Ilson
Compiled by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Speak and write perfect English!BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say “mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly”). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say “I want you to go = What I want… read more[Not in series, BBI] 2010. xxxix, 462 pp.
French Syntax in Contrast
Edited by Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:2 (2010) vi, 170 pp.
Keyness in Texts
Edited by Marina Bondi and Mike Scott
This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key – and thereby reflect or promote important themes – in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 41] 2010. vi, 251 pp.
Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives
Edited by Petra Storjohann
This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 28] 2010. viii, 188 pp.
Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie
Sous la direction de Michele De Gioia
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:2 (2009) vi, 160 pp.
Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze
This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.
Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley
This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.
Lexicography in the 21st Century: In honour of Henning Bergenholtz
Edited by Sandro Nielsen and Sven Tarp
This is a state-of-the-art volume on lexicography at the beginning of the 21st century. It also offers proposals for future theoretical and practical work. The contributions, inspired by the ground-breaking work of Henning Bergenholtz, address topics such as dictionary functions; dictionary users;… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 12] 2009. xi, 341 pp.
Teaching and Learning Terminology: New strategies and methods
Edited by Amparo Alcina
Special issue of Terminology 15:1 (2009) 149 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English (3 vols. set)
Edited by Marina Dossena, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti
These three volumes contain selections of revised papers, originally presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Bergamo 2006). The volumes focus, respectively, on syntax and morphology, lexis and semantics, and geo-historical variation. The papers,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 295-297] 2008. ca. 760 pp.
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
Edited by Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena
The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 296] 2008. xiii, 264 pp.
Pattern-based Approaches to Semantic Relation Extraction
Edited by Alain Auger and Caroline Barrière
Special issue of Terminology 14:1 (2008) 160 pp.
Application-Driven Terminology Engineering
Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Anne Condamines and Teresa Cabré
A common framework under which the various studies on terminology processing can be viewed is to consider not only the texts from which the terminological resources are built but particularly the applications targeted. The current book, first published as a Special Issue of Terminology 11:1 (2005),… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 2] 2007. vii, 203 pp.
Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective
Heming Yong and Jing Peng
This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 9] 2007. x, 229 pp.
Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch
Kristel Proost
This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004
Edited by Henrik Gottlieb and Jens Erik Mogensen
This book is about dictionaries and dictionary making. In six thematic sections it presents nineteen contributions covering a wide field within lexicography: Online Lexicography, Dictionary Structure, Phraseology in Dictionaries, LSP Lexicography, Dictionaries and the User, plus Etymology, History… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 10] 2007. xii, 321 pp.
Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP: Studies in honour of Heribert Picht
Edited by Bassey E. Antia
This book deals with the oft-neglected tensions between perspicuity and fuzziness in specialised communication. It describes the manifestations, functions and implications of indeterminacy phenomena in a range of LSP specialisations where it has been customary to expect precision and consistency.… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 8] 2007. xxii, 236 pp.
Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts
Edited by Judith Munat
The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the semantic, stylistic, textual and social environments in which they occur. The twelve specialists contributing to this collection aim to… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 58] 2007. xvi, 294 pp.
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning–Text Theory: In honour of Igor Mel'čuk
Edited by Leo Wanner
The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk’s 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 84] 2007. xviii, 377 pp.
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Edited by Wolfgang Teubert
The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp.
Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English
Andreas Langlotz
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.
Processing of Terms in Specialized Dictionaries: New Models and Techniques
Edited by Marie-Claude L'Homme
Special issue of Terminology 12:2 (2006) 136 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume II. Psychological aspects (set)
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian Kay and Nicola Pitchford
These two volumes offer a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference held in Glasgow, U.K.; some additional invited papers are included. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour… read more[Not in series, PICS S] 2006. xii, 223 pp. & xiv, 237 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ which… read more[Not in series, PICS 1] 2006. xii, 223 pp.
Application-Driven Terminology Engineering
Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Anne Condamines and Teresa Cabré
Special issue of Terminology 11:1 (2005) 231 pp.
Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross
Edited by Christian Leclère, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein
Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics. Long before computers could facilitate large-scale, lexically-based language study, he and his team began building an exhaustive, empirically-based inventory of the "lexicon-grammar" of… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 24] 2004. xxii, 659 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay
Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.
Recent Trends in Computational Terminology
Edited by Béatrice Daille, Kyo Kageura, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Lee-Feng Chien
Special issue of Terminology 10:1 (2004) vi, 182 pp.
English Words Abroad
Manfred Görlach †
English Words Abroad summarizes the methods developed for the innovative multilingual Dictionary of European Anglicisms (Görlach 2001, OUP) which combines data on English loanwords in sixteen European languages (four each for Germanic, Slavic, Romance and others). This summary allows us to quantify… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 7] 2003. xii, 188 pp.
A Practical Guide to Lexicography
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 6] 2003. xii, 460 pp.
Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Geoff Barnbrook
Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.
The Dynamics of Terminology: A descriptive theory of term formation and terminological growth
Kyo Kageura
The discovery of rules for the systematicity and dynamics of terminology creations is essential for a sound basis of a theory of terminology. This quest provides the driving force for The Dynamics of Terminology in which Dr. Kageura demonstrates the interaction of these two factors on a specific… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 5] 2002. viii, 322 pp.
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues
Edited by Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension. This thematic collection provides a uniquely multi-faceted and integrated viewpoint on key aspects of lexicalist theories, drawing from the fields of theoretical linguistics,… read more[Natural Language Processing, 4] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields — contrastive linguistics,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Recent Advances in Computational Terminology
Edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme
This first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology. The recent… read more[Natural Language Processing, 2] 2001. xviii, 379 pp.
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Wolfgang Teubert
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:SI (2001) iv, 170 pp.
Essays on Definition
Juan C. Sager
This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 4] 2000. viii, 257 pp.
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 194] 2000. xiv, 249 pp.
Terminology and Language Planning: An alternative framework of practice and discourse
Bassey E. Antia
Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of glocalisation, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 2] 2000. xxiv, 264 pp.
Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach
Rita Temmerman
Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. Her findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 3] 2000. xv, 258 pp.
Contrastive Lexical Semantics
Edited by Edda Weigand
Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 171] 1998. x, 270 pp.
The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Revised edition
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Speak and write perfect English! The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations tells you which words go together in English and which words do not.The BBI will help you master the difficulties of common but unpredictable English phrases and word combinations.The BBI shows key differences between… read more[Not in series, BBI 1 (2nd)] 1997. xl, 386 pp.
Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing
Edited by Leo Wanner
Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing is entirely devoted to the topic of Lexical Functions, which have been introduced in the framework of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) as a means for describing restricted lexical co-occurrence and derivational relations. It provides… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 31] 1996. xx, 355 pp.
Essays on Terminology
Alain Rey
A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English. The chapters deal with the origins of terminology, theoretical issues, social aspects, neologisms and evolution, lexicology and lexicography, applied issues, description and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 9] 1995. xiv, 223 pp.
Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language
Edited by Urs Egli, Peter E. Pause, Christoph Schwarze, Arnim von Stechow and Götz Wienold
This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 114] 1995. xiv, 367 pp.
Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The preparation of specialised dictionaries
Edited by Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp
From 1990–1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled “translation of LSP texts”, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography.The Manual of Specialised Lexicography is one of the results of… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 12] 1995. 256 pp.
Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are… read more[Not in series, 65] 1993. xviii, 269 pp.
Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II
Yakov Malkiel
The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.
The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Dictionary and workbook (set)
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
[Not in series, BBI S] 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more[Not in series, BBI 2 (1st)] 1991. x, 58 pp.incl. key
Meaning and Lexicography
Edited by Jerzy Tomaszczyk and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 28] 1990. xxv, 340 pp.
A Practical Course in Terminology Processing
Juan C. Sager
Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer. Terminology management has proved to be an efficient tool in international communications in industry, education and international organisations. Software packages are… read more[Not in series, 44] 1990. xi, 258 pp.
Translation and Lexicography: Papers read at the Euralex Colloquium held at Innsbruck 2–5 July 1987
Edited by Mary Snell-Hornby and Esther Pöhl
Translation and Lexicography includes a selection of papers presented at the 1987 European Lexicographers' Conference (EURALEX). The volume gives a comprehensive impression of new developments in the making and use of dictionaries for translation purposes, providing practical and theoretical… read more[Not in series, 40] 1989. 238 pp.
A Spectrum of Lexicography
Edited by Robert F. Ilson
This collection presents a balanced yet vivid picture of many of the domains of activity of lexicography. Ten contributors from eight countries discuss monolingual dictionaries (for learners and native speakers), bilingual dictionaries, an original approach to computer-aided lexicography, and the… read more[Not in series, 28] 1987. ix, 158 pp.
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A guide to word combinations
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
This unique dictionary gives essential collocations of English in an easily accessible form. It shows which word combinations exist in English and which grammatical constructions are possible. Whenever possible, the collocations are listed under the noun, so that in order to find out, for instance,… read more[Not in series, BBI 1 (1st)] 1986. xxxvi, 286 pp.
The History of Lexicography
Edited by R.R.K. Hartmann
Most dictionaries have forerunners, and all have imitators; an understanding of the historical foundations of dictionary-making is therefore one of the preconditions of further progress in academic lexicography. The papers in this volume, which were presented at the 1986 Exeter Seminar, survey most… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 40] 1986. viii, 265 pp.
Lexicographic Description of English
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is the first serious attempt to describe in detail the lexical and grammatical differences between American and British… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 14] 1986. xiii, 288 pp.
Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie: Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach
Ruth Klappenbach (1911–1977)
The book sketches the history and technical apparatus of dictionary writing, in detail Ruth Klappenbach’s Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Berlin: Akademieverlag 1956, a loner at its time and setting the pattern for the many other German dictionaries to come. The book’s main chapters… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 1] 1980. xxiii, 313 pp.
The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Tetsuro Hayashi
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 18] 1978. xii, 168 pp.