The Oxford Handbook of the Word

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies, lexical borrowing, word origins and change, place and personal names, word acquisition and bilingualism, and word games and puzzles.

John R. Taylor obtained his PhD in 1979 and was Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Otago until his retirement in 2010. He is the author of Possessives in English (1996), Cognitive Grammar (2002), Linguistic Categorization (3rd edition 2003), and The Mental Corpus (2012; paperback 2014), all published by Oxford University Press, and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics (2014). He is a managing editor for the series Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter) and an Associate Editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics.

Introduction
PART I WORDS: GENERAL ASPECTS
1: David Crystal: The lure of words
2: Adam Kilgarriff: How many words are there?
3: Marc Alexander: Words and dictionaries
4: Christian Kay: Words and thesauri
5: Joseph Sorell: Word frequencies
6: Peter Gryzbek: Word length
7: Rosamund Moon: Multi-word items
8: Michael Hoey: Words and their neighbours
PART II WORDS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
9: Geert E. Booij: The structure of words
10: Mark C. Smith: Word categories
11: Nikolas Gisborne: The word and syntax
12: Kristine A. Hildebrandt: The prosodic word
13: Andrew Hippisley: The word as a universal category
14: Kate Burridge: Taboo words
15: G. Tucker Childs: Sound symbolism
PART III MEANINGS, REFERENTS, AND CONCEPTS
16: Nick Riemer: Word meaning
17: Barbara C. Malt: Words as names for objects, actions, relations, and properties
18: Marie-Claude L'Homme: Terminologies and taxonomies
19: Christiane Fellbaum: Lexical relations
20: Asifa Majid: Comparing lexicons cross-linguistically
21: Cliff Goddard: Words as carriers of cultural meaning
PART IV WORDS IN TIME AND SPACE
22: Philip Durkin: Etymology
23: Dirk Geeraerts: How words and vocabularies change
24: Anthony P. Grant: Lexical borrowing
25: Margaret E. Winters: Lexical layers
PART V WORDS IN THE MIND
26: Simon de Deyne and Gert Storms: Word associations
27: Niels O. Schiller and Rinus G. Verdonschot: Accessing words from the mental lexicon
28: John N. Williams: The bilingual lexicon
29: Dennis Tay: Words and neuropsychological disorders
PART VI WORDS IN ACQUISITION LEARNING
30: Eve V. Clark: First words
31: Katharine Graf Estes: How infants find words
32: Reese M. Heitner: Roger Brown's 'original word game'
33: Paul Nation: Which words do you need?
34: Frank Boers: Words in second language learning and teaching
PART VII NAMES
35: John M. Anderson: Names
36: Benjamin Blount: Personal names
37: Carole Hough: Place and other names
38: Robert Kennedy: Nicknames
39: Cynthia Whissell: Choosing a name: how name givers' feelings influence their selections
PART VIII FUN WITH WORDS
40: Victor Raskin: Funny words: verbal humour
41: Henk J. Verkuyl: Word puzzles
A FINAL WORD
42: Alison Wray: Why are we so sure we know what a word is?
References
Index of Languages
Subject Index