Names Studies
I. in Corpus Linguistics and Lexicology
In press Analyzing the Lexicon: Norms and Exploitations. MIT Press
2008b ‘The Lexicographical Legacy of John Sinclair’ in International Journal of Lexicography 21:3 (special issue on Sinclair; guest editor P. Hanks)
2008a ‘How to Say New Things: an Essay on Linguistic Creativity’ in Brno Studies in English 34
2007 (ed., with an introduction) Lexicology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. 6 volumes, Routledge
2006a ‘Metaphoricity is a Gradable’ in A. Stefanowitsch and S. Gries (eds.): Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 1: Metaphor and Metonymy. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter
2006b The Organization of the Lexicon: Semantic Types and Lexical Sets’ in Semweb 2006. Prague
2006c (with E. Gehweiler and A. Urbschat) ‘German Light Verb Constructions in Corpora and Dictionaries’ in International Journal of Lexicography 19:4
2005a (with J. Pustejovsky) ‘A Pattern Dictionary for Natural Language Processing’ in Revue française de linguistique appliquée 10 (2)
2005b ‘Metaphors and Meanings: a Lexicographical Approach’ in F. Kiefer, G. Kiss, and J. Pajzs (eds.) Papers in Computational Lexicography: Complex 2005. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
2005c ‘Similes and Sets: the English Preposition like’ in R. Blatná and V. Petkeviè (eds.): Jazyky a jazykovĕda (Languages and Linguistics: Festschrift for Professor Fr. Èermák). Prague: Philosophy Faculty of the Charles University
2005d Articles on ‘Lexicography’, ‘English Lexicography’, ‘American Lexicography’ (with J. Sheidlower), ‘Definition’, ‘Personal Names’. ‘Proper Names’, and ‘Nicknames’ in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition (ELL2). Oxford: Elsevier
2005e ‘Johnson and Modern Lexicography’ in International Journal of Lexicography 18:2
2004a (with J. Pustejovsky, and A. Rumshisky) ‘Automatic Induction of Sense in Context.’ COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
2004b ‘The Syntagmatics of Metaphor’ in International Journal of Lexicography 17:3
2003 ‘Lexicography’ in Ruslan Mitkov (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford University Press
2002 ‘Mapping Meaning onto Use’ in Marie-Hélène Corréard (ed.): Lexicography and Natural Language Processing: a Festschrift in honour of B. T. S. Atkins. Euralex
2001 ‘The Probable and the Possible: Lexicography in the Age of the Internet’ in AsiaLex Proceedings. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2000a ‘Do Word Meanings Exist?’ in Computers and the Humanities 34, Reprinted 2007 in T. Fontenelle (ed.): Practical Lexicography. Oxford University Press.
2000b ‘Contributions of Lexicography and Corpus Analysis to a Theory of Language Performance’ in Euralex 2000 Proceedings. IMI Stuttgart
2000c ‘Immediate Context Analysis: distinguishing meanings by studying usage’ in Chris Heffer and Helen Sauntson (editors): Words in Context: A Tribute to John Sinclair on his Retirement. University of Birmingham ELR Discourse analysis Monograph No. 18.
1999 ‘English Phraseology and Idiom Dictionaries’ in G. Corpas Pastor (ed.): Las lenguas de Europa: Estudios de fraseología, fraseografía y traducción. Comares, Granada
1998 ‘Enthusiasm and Condescension: Changing Norms of Meaning and Use’ in T. Fontenelle et al. (eds.): Euralex'98 Proceedings. Liege
1997 ‘Lexical Sets: Relevance and Probability’ in B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and M. Thelen (eds.) Translation and Meaning, Part 4. School of Translation and Interpreting, Maastricht
1996a ‘Contextual Dependency and Lexical Sets’ in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 1 (1)
1996b (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk): ‘Completive Particles and Verbs of Closing in English’ in E. Weigand and F. Hundsnurscher (eds.) Lexical Structures and Language Use. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen
1994a (with K. Church, W. Gale, D. Hindle, and R. Moon) ‘Lexical Substitutability’ in B. T. S. Atkins and A. Zampolli (eds.), Computational Approaches to the Lexicon. Oxford University Press
1994b ‘Linguistic Norms and Pragmatic Exploitations, Or Why Lexicographers need Prototype Theory, and Vice Versa’ in F. Kiefer, G. Kiss, and J. Pajzs (eds.) Papers in Computational Lexicography: Complex '94. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1993 ‘Lexicography: Theory and Practice’ in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 14
1992a ‘Computational Analysis and Definitional Structure’ in F. M. Dolezal, A. Kucera, A. Rey, H. E. Wiegand, W. Wolski, and L. Zgusta (eds), Lexicographica 8. Niemeyer
1991b ‘Evidence and Intuition in Lexicography’ in J. Tomaszczyk and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.), Meaning and Lexicography. Benjamins
1991a ‘Towards a Statistical Dictionary of Modern English’ in T. Magay (ed.) Budalex '88: Proceedings of the Third Euralex International Congress. Budapest
1991c (with K. Church, W. Gale, and D. Hindle) ‘Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis’ in U. Zernik (ed.), Lexical Acquisition: Using On-line Resources to Build a Lexicon. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
1989b (with K. Church, W. Gale, and D. Hindle) ‘Parsing, Word Associations and Typical Predicate-Argument Relations’, in M. Tomita (ed.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Carnegie Mellon University
1989a (with K. Church) ‘Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography’, in Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; revised version published in Computational Linguistics, 16(1), 1990. Reprinted in T. Fontenelle (ed.), 2007, Practical Lexicography: a Reader (Oxford University Press) and in P. Hanks (ed.) 2008, Lexicology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics (Routledge)
1988 ‘Typicality and Meaning Potentials’. In M. Snell-Hornby (ed.): ZüriLEX ‘86 Proceedings. Francke Verlag. Republished 2004 in G. Sampson and D. McCarthy (eds., 2006): Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline. Continuum
1987 ‘Definitions and Explanations’ in J. M. Sinclair (ed.), Looking Up. Collins
1981 ‘The English of Southern Africa’ in English in Africa, 8 (1)
1979 ‘To what Extent does a Dictionary Definition Define?’ in R. R. K. Hartmann (ed.), Papers from the 1978 B.A.A.L. Seminar on Lexicography. Exeter Papers in Lexicography
II. English-Language Dictionaries
2000 New Oxford Thesaurus of English, first edition
1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English, first edition
1995 Oxford English Reference Dictionary
1989a Collins School Dictionary, first edition
1989b Collins Pocket English Dictionary, first edition
1988 Collins Cobuild Essential English Dictionary, first edition
1987 Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary, first edition
1982 Collins Concise English Dictionary, first edition
1979 Collins English Dictionary, first edition
1971 Encyclopedic World Dictionary, first edition, Paul Hamlyn
III. Onomastics
Forthcoming (with Peter McClure, Kate Hardcastle, and others): Reaney’s Dictionary of Surnames in Britain and Ireland, revised and enlarged edition. Oxford University Press
2008 ‘Lexicography of Personal Names' in A. P. Cowie (ed.): The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Oxford University Press.
2006 (with Kate Hardcastle and Flavia Hodges) The Oxford Dictionary of First Names, fourth edition. Oxford University Press
2005 ‘Americanization of European Family Names in the 17th and 18th Centuries’ in Onoma, the International Journal of Onomastic Sciences 38.
2003 Dictionary of American Family Names. 3 vols. Oxford University Press, New York
2001 (with F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, third edition. Oxford University Press
2000 (with D. Kenneth Tucker) ‘A Diagnostic Database of American Personal Names’, in Names (48.1)
1997 (with F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, second edition. Oxford University Press
1992a (with F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, first edition. Oxford University Press
1992b ‘The Present-Day Distribution of Surnames in the British Isles' in Nomina 16
1990 (with F. Hodges) The Oxford Dictionary of First Names, first edition. Oxford University Press
1988 (with F. Hodges) A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press
IV. English-Teaching Course Book
1986a (with Jim Corbett) Business Listening Tasks. Cambridge University Press
1986b (with Jim Corbett) Business Listening Tasks: Guide for Teachers and Self-Study. Cambridge University Press