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Informationen zum Autor M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Anna Cermakova is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK and EdTech consultant for WiKIT, AS. Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Colin Yallop is Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Perspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study of words) and corpus linguistics: how are individual words integrated into language? What are the real benefits of studying the large quantities of text now available in corpora? How do we best conceptualize meaning itself?Section One 1. What is a Word? 2. Methods in Lexicology: the Dictionary 3. Methods in Lexicology: the Thesaurus 4. History of Lexicology: India, China, the Islamic World, Europe 5. Evolution of the Dictionary and Thesaurus in England 6. Recent Developments in Lexicology 7. Sources and Resources Section Two 8. Etymology 9. Prescription 10. Grammar, Syntax and Lexicogrammar 11. Semantics 12. Language and Reality 13. Language and Society 14. Language and Cognition 15. Language and Computation 16. Language and Languages 17. Translation Section Three: 18. Corpus Linguistics as a Theoretical Approach 19. Corpus Typology 20. Corpus Linguistics and Language 21. The Minimal Assumption Postulate 22. Research and Development 23. Corpus Semantics 24. Multilingual Semantics 25. Multilingual Corpus Semantics 26. Applying Multilingual Corpus Semantics 27. Semantics and the Multilingual Corpus
