<p> AN5014MA Perspectives on the Lexicon/AN5001MA Lexicology Spring 2013 Time: Monday 12.00-13.40 Place: XVI/3 Instructor: Cserép Attila Office hours: Monday 17.00-18.00 and Tuesday 17.00-18.00 Office: 1/3</p><p>Course aim and material The course will introduce you to the study of words. The topics to be covered include the linguistic sign, English morphology, types of word-formation (derivation, compounding, manufacture, initialism, clipping, blending, back-formation), productivity, syntactic and semantic issues in word-formation, meaning relations between words and the lexicon as a system. Word combinations will not be dealt with, since a separate course (Phraseology) is devoted to multi-word expressions. Textbooks The course packet Lipka, Leonhard. 1992. An Outline of English Lexicology. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Requirements and procedures You are expected to read the assigned material and discuss the reading in class. Assessment Assessment will be based on an in-class mid-term essay (40%), an in-class end-term essay (40%) and students’ participation in seminar discussions (20%).</p><p>Week 1 11 Feb Introduction</p><p>Week 2 18 Feb Lexicology, words, lexical units, the linguistic sign Lipka: 2.1 Models of the sign, 2.1.1 Saussure’s Approach, 2.1.2 Ogden/Richard’s “Semiotic Triangle”, 2.3.2 The Ambiguity of ‘Word’, 2.3.3 Lexemes, lexical items, and word forms</p><p>Week 3 25 Feb Morphology: the internal structure of words Haspelmath: 2.2 Morphemes, 2.3 Affixes, bases and roots, 2.4 Formal operations, 2.5 Morphemes and allomorphs, 2.6 Some difficulties in morpheme analysis Bauer and Huddleston: 1.2 Morphological structure</p><p>Week 4 4 March Productivity Haspelmath: 3.1 Productivity and the lexicon, Chapter 6 Productivity</p><p>Week 5 11 March Derivation Bauer and Huddleston: 5.1 Affixation and derivation: formal issues, 5.1.1 Kinds and combinations of affixes, 5.1.2 Morphophonological alternation, 5.1.3 Class I and Class II affixes, 5.1.4 Paradigmatic relations and affix-replacement</p><p>Week 6 18 March Compounding Bauer and Huddleston: 4.1 Preliminaries, 4.2 Compound nouns, 4.2.1 Noun-centred compound nouns, 4.2.2 Verb-centred compound nouns, 4.5 Neo-classical compounds</p><p>1 Week 7 25 March Mid-term paper</p><p>Week 8 1 April CONSULTATION WEEK</p><p>Week 9 8 April Syntactic and semantic issues in word formation Plag: Theoretical issues: modeling word-formation Lipka: 3.2.3 Nominalizations</p><p>Week 10 15 April Minor word-formation processes Bauer and Huddleston: 2 Minor word-formation processes, 2.1 Manufacture, 2.2 Initialism, 2.3 Clipping, 2.3.1 Plain clippings, 2.3.2 Embellished clippings, 2.4 Blending, 2.5 Back-formation, 2.6 Phonological modification, 3 Conversion, 3.1 The domain of conversion, 3.2 Conversion between nouns and verbs, 3.3 Conversion between adjectives and nouns, 3.4 Conversion between adjectives and verbs</p><p>Week 11 22 April The meaning of the word Lipka: 2.2 The Meaning of Signs and Kinds of Meaning, 2.2.1 Language and Reality, 2.2.3 Denotation and Reference, 2.2.4 Other Kinds of Meaning, 2.2.5 Connotations and Markedness</p><p>Week 12 29 April LAST WEEK FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS </p><p>Meaning relations Lipka: 4.2 Paradigmatic relations, 4.2.1 Homonymy versus Polysemy, 4.2.3 Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics, 4.2.3.1 Synonymy, 4.2.3.2 Hyponymy and Incompatibility, 4.2.3.3 Complementarity, Antonymy, and Converseness</p><p>Week 13 6 May The history of words Katamba: Ch 7 A lexical mosaic (on separate handout) Katamba 8.6.1-8.6.6 (on separate handout)</p><p>Week 14 13 May End-term paper</p><p>Week 15 20 May HOLIDAY</p><p>Recommended material: Adams, Valerie. 2001. Complex Words in English. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Aitchison, Jean. 1994. Words in the Mind. Oxford: Blackwell. Asher, R. E. and J. M. Y. Simpson. (eds.) 1994. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bauer, Laurie. 1998. When is a sequence of two nouns a compound in English? English Language and Linguistics 2/1: 65-86.</p><p>2 Bauer, Laurie and Rodney Huddleston. 2002. Lexical word-formation. In: Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum. (eds.) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Benczes, Réka. 2006. Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman. Booij, Geert. 2007 (2nd edition) (2005 1st edition). The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2002. An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Carter, Ronald. 1998 (2nd edition) (1987 1st edition). Vocabulary. London and New York: Routledge. Croft, William and D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cruse, D. A. 1986. Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cruse, D. Alan, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job and Peter Rolf Lutzeier. (eds.) 2002. Lexikologie: Ein internazionales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen 1. Halbband. Lexicology: An International Handbook On the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies Volume 1. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. Cruse, D. Alan, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job and Peter Rolf Lutzeier. (eds.) 2005. Lexikologie: Ein internazionales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen 2. Halbband. Lexicology: An International Handbook On the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies Volume 2. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crystal, David. 2006. Words, Words, Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold. Hoey, Michael. 2005. Lexical Priming. London and New York: Routledge. Jackson, Howard and Etienne Zé Amvela. 2007 (2nd edition) (2000 1st edition). Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. London and New York: Continuum. Katamba, Francis. 2005 (2nd edition) (1994 1st edition). English Words: Structure, History, Usage. London and New York: Routledge. Katamba, Francis and John Stonham. 2006 (2nd edition) (1993 1st edition). Morphology. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Kövecses, Zoltán. 2002. Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lipka, Leonhard. 2002 (3rd edition) (1992 2nd edition An Outline of English Lexicology Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag). English Lexicology. Tübingen: Narr. Matthews, Peter. 1991 (2nd edition) (1974 1st edition). Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McArthur, Tom. (ed.) 1992. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Peters, Pam. 2004. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. Singleton, David. 2000. Language and the Lexicon. London: Arnold. Ungerer, Friedrich. 2007. Word-Formation. In: Geeraerts, Dirk and Hubert Cuyckens. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p><p>3 Online sources: http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm http://wordspy.com/ http://www.word-detective.com/</p><p>4</p>