Contents -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I SITUATING THE QUESTION -- 1 - Language as a Human Phenomenon -- 2 - Linguists and the Tradition -- 3 - Meaning: An Object of Scientific Enquiry? -- II MAKING WORDS -- 4 - Coming to Grips with Meaning -- 5 - How Access "Got Verbed" -- 6 - Wording -- III LEXEMES OF VERBS -- 7 - Monosemy and Polysemy -- 8 - Discerning Different Senses of See -- 9 - Grammatical (In) compatibility with Other Verbs -- 10 - Do, Be, Have -- 11 - Working Out the Right Sense -- IV LEXEMES OF SUBSTANTIVES -- 12 - Common and Proper -- 13 - 'Unbounded' and 'Bounded' -- 14 - Metaphor -- V THE GRAMMATICAL CONNECTION -- 15 - Making Lexemes into Nouns -- 16 - Space Words, Time Words, and Adverbs -- VI CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.