Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.

This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries. Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic

From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search o

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linke