The Oxford Handbook of the Word

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Introduction
PART I WORDS: GENERAL ASPECTS
1: The lure of words, David Crystal
2: How many words are there?, Adam Kilgarriff
3: Words and dictionaries, Marc Alexander
4: Words and thesauri, Christian Kay
5: Word frequencies, Joseph Sorell
6: Word length, Peter Gryzbek
7: Multi-word items, Rosamund Moon
8: Words and their neighbours, Michael Hoey
PART II WORDS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
9: The structure of words, Geert E. Booij
10: Word categories, Mark C. Smith
11: The word and syntax, Nikolas Gisborne
12: The prosodic word, Kristine A. Hildebrandt
13: The word as a universal category, Andrew Hippisley
14: Taboo words, Kate Burridge
15: Sound symbolism, G. Tucker Childs
PART III MEANINGS, REFERENTS, AND CONCEPTS
16: Word meaning, Nick Riemer
17: Words as names for objects, actions, relations, and properties, Barbara C. Malt
18: Terminologies and taxonomies, Marie-Claude L'Homme
19: Lexical relations, Christiane Fellbaum
20: Comparing lexicons cross-linguistically, Asifa Majid
21: Words as carriers of cultural meaning, Cliff Goddard
PART IV WORDS IN TIME AND SPACE
22: Etymology, Philip Durkin
23: How words and vocabularies change, Dirk Geeraerts
24: Lexical borrowing, Anthony P. Grant
25: Lexical layers, Margaret E. Winters
PART V WORDS IN THE MIND
26: Word associations, Simon de Deyne and Gert Storms
27: Accessing words from the mental lexicon, Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot
28: The bilingual lexicon, John N. Williams
29: Words and neuropsychological disorders, Dennis Tay
PART VI WORDS IN ACQUISITION LEARNING
30: First words, Eve V. Clark
31: How infants find words, Katharine Graf Estes
32: Roger Brown's 'original word game', Reese M. Heitner
33: Which words do you need?, Paul Nation
34: Words in second language learning and teaching, Frank Boers
PART VII NAMES
35: Names, John M. Anderson
36: Personal names, Benjamin Blount
37: Place and other names, Carole Hough
38: Nicknames, Robert Kennedy
39: Choosing a name: how name givers' feelings influence their selections, Cynthia Whissell
PART VIII FUN WITH WORDS
40: Funny words: verbal humour, Victor Raskin
41: Word puzzles, Henk J. Verkuyl
A FINAL WORD
42: Why are we so sure we know what a word is?, Alison Wray
References
Index of Languages
Subject Index