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Reasons to Study Lexicography  You love words  It can help you evaluate dictionaries  It might make you more sensitive to what dictionaries have in.

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1 Reasons to Study Lexicography  You love words  It can help you evaluate dictionaries  It might make you more sensitive to what dictionaries have in them (and DON'T).  It can make you a better USER of dictionaries too  You will learn more about Reference Works in general  You may want to become a dictionary editor or contributing editor  You can help language learners with their language learning needs  Useful background for vocabulary learning, teaching, or assessment

2 Outline of Chapter 1 Howard Jackson, Lexicography: An Introduction Terminology —Words for various kinds of words Word Classes —Grammatical categories Structure of Words —Morphology

3 Terminology—1 Word Orthographic word Phonological word Lexeme (lexical unit, entry, lemma?) Headword (entry, word list) Homonym Homograph Homophone

4 Terminology—2 Word constituents (Morphology) Morpheme Root Affix (prefix, suffix, infix) Inflectional affixes (suffix only) NOUN: plural, possessive(s) VERB: 3rd per sg pres, past tense, past part, progressive ADJ: comparative, superlative Derivational affixes

5 Terminology—3 Word Formation Processes (Part 1) Affixation / Derivations Compounds Word Formation Processes (Part 2: "Phrasal Lexemes") 1. noun + prep + noun 2. possessive + noun 3. X AND Y 4. verb + adv/particle (Phrasal Verbs) 5. idioms a. more than one word b. meaning NOT compositional c. structure is relatively fixed

6 Morpheme Types Morphemes Lexical Grammatical Free Bound Bound Free Inflectional Derivational


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