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8. The Nature of the Lexicon
- Lexemes
- How large is the English lexicon?
- Abbreviations
- Proper names
- How large is your lexicon?
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9. The Sources of the Lexicon
- Native vocabulary
- Foreign borrowings
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Lexical structure
- Unusual structures
- Lexical creation
- Literary neologizing
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10. Etymology
- Semantic change
- Folk etymology
- Names
- English place names in the New World
- Personal names
- Object names
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11. The Structure of the Lexicon
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Semantic fields
- Networks
- Primitives
- Definitions
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The thesaurus
- Themes by introspection and deduction
- Themes induced from usage (corpus)
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Lexical structure
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Investigating collocations
- Corpus (collected texts)
- Concordance (index of corpus)
- Node (search-term, lexeme or word-form)
- Span (range of neighbor-words)
- Collocates (frequent neighbor-words of node)
- Predicting lexemes
- Lexical phrases
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Sense relations
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Hyponyms
- Incompatibles
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Other
- Part/whole
- Hierarchies
- Series