Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter I. General Problems. Words, Words, Words -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Structure of the English Lexicon -- 1.3. Varieties of English -- 1.4. Dictionaries of English -- Chapter II. The Linguistic Sign. What's in a Word? -- 2.1. Models of the Sign -- 2.1.1. Saussure's Approach -- 2.1.2. Ogden and Richards's "Semiotic Triangle" -- 2.1.3. Bühler's "Organon Model" -- 2.2. The Meaning of Signs and Kinds of 'Meaning' -- 2.2.1. Language and Reality -- 2.2.2. Approaches to Semantics -- 2.2.3. Denotation and Reference -- 2.2.4. Other Kinds of Meaning -- 2.2.5. Connotations and Markedness -- 2.3. Morpheme, Word, Lexeme -- 2.3.1. The Classification of Morphemes -- 2.3.2. The Ambiguity of 'Word' -- 2.3.3. Lexemes, Lexical Items, and Word-Forms -- Chapter III. The Internal Structure of Words. Word-Formation, Features, and Componential Analysis -- 3.1. Polysemy, Lexical Entries, and Sememes -- 3.2. Morphological Structure: Simple vs. Complex Lexemes -- 3.2.1. Compounds -- 3.2.2. Suffixal and Zero-Derivatives -- 3.2.3. Nominalizations -- 3.2.4. Word-Formation Processes and Productivity -- 3.2.5. Lexicalization and Idioms -- 3.3. The Semantic Structure of Words: Componential Analysis and Semantic Features -- 3.3.1. Semantic Decomposition and its Justification -- 3.3.2. A Typology of Features -- 3.3.3. Feature Semantics vs. Prototype Semantics: an Alternative? -- 3.3.4. Relations between Components -- 3.4. Lexical Rules and Semantic Processes -- 3.4.1. Rules and Tendencies -- 3.4.2. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Categorization -- Chapter IV. The Structure of the Lexicon. Relations between Words -- 4.1. Units, Classes, and Relations -- 4.1.1. Lexical Entry and Lexical Unit -- 4.1.2. Word Classes and Semantic Classes -- 4.2. Paradigmatic Relations -- 4.2.1. Homonymy vs. Polysemy -- 4.2.2. Zero-Derivation and Word Metaphors.

4.2.3. Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics -- 4.2.3.1. Synonymy -- 4.2.3.2. Hyponymy and Incompatibility -- 4.2.3.3. Complementarity, Antonymy, and Converseness -- 4.2.3.4. Contrast and Opposition: Recent Work -- 4.2.4. Lexical Fields and Hierarchies -- 4.2.5. Association and Lexical Sets -- 4.3. Syntagmatic Relations -- 4.3.1. Various Approaches -- 4.3.2. Selection Restrictions and Projection Rules -- 4.3.3. Transfer Features and Metaphor -- 4.3.4. Lexical Solidarities -- 4.3.5. Collocation as a Neutral Syntagma -- Chapter V. The Function of Words. Co-Text, Context, and the Mental Lexicon -- 5.1. Words in Context -- 5.1.1. The Functions of Word-Formation in Texts -- 5.1.2. Monosemization as the Resolution of Polysemy -- 5.1.3. Words at Work -- 5.2. Words in the Mind -- 5.2.1. Categorization and Psychology -- 5.2.2. The Structuring of the Universe -- Chapter VI. Summary and Conclusions -- 6.1. Summary -- 6.2. Conclusions -- 6.2.1. Specific Results -- 6.2.2. General Conclusions and Consequences -- Abbreviations -- Dictionaries -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Persons.