Research

Books

• 2009 Wine and Conversation, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 1992 Frames, Fields, and Contrasts, edited with Eva V. Kittay. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• 1983 Wine and Conversation, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 1974 Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure, Amsterdam: North Holland.
• 1970 The Theory of Meaning, edited with Keith Lehrer, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

Articles since 1990

Language about food and wine

• 2016 The language of taste. Inquiry, Sept. 2016.  With Keith Lehrer.
• 2007 Can wines be brawny?. In A Question of Taste Barry C. Smith, ed. Oxford: Springer.
• 2003 Language about food. Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vol 2 S.H. Katz, ed. Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 351-353.
• 2003 Naming food.Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vol 2 S.H. Katz, ed. Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. 549-550.
• 1991 The semiotics of food and drink. In The Semiotic Web 1990: Recent Developments in Theory and History. J. Umiker-Sebeok and T. Sebeok, eds. Berlin and NY: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Neologisms

• 2010  Experiments on Processing Lexical Blends. With Csaba Veres
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• 2007 Blendalicious. In Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts: The Morphology/Stylistic Interface. Judith Munet, ed. Amsterdam.
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• 2005 Neologisms. Logical and Lexical Semantics, Elsevier Limited. Oxford,
  Understanding trendy neologisms. Italian Journal of Linguistics/
  Revista di Linguistica.
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• 2003 Fashions, Neologisms and Local Schemas. In Studies in English Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. J. Andor, J. Horvath, & M. Nikolov, eds. Pecs: Lingua Franc Csopost
• 1998 Scapes, Holics, and Thons: The Semantics of Combining Forms. American Speech 73: 3-28.
• 1997 Problems in the Translation of Creative Neologisms. Translation and Meaning, Part 4. B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & M. Thelen, eds. Maastrict: Hogeschool Maastrict Press, pp. 141-147.
• 1996 Identifying and Interpreting Blends. Cognitive Linguistics, 7.4: 259-290\
• 1996 Why neologisms are important to study. Lexicology 2.1: 63-73.

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Lexical relations. semantic fields, and polysemy

• 2003 Polysemy in derivational affixes. Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language. B. Nerlick, Z. Todd, V. Herman,& D.D. Clark, eds. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• 2002 Gradable antonymy and complementarity. Handbook of Lexicology, D.A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, & P. R. Lutzeier eds. pp. 498-506. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• 2002 Semantics relations of derivational affixes. Handbook of Lexicology, D.A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job, & P. R. Lutzeier eds. pp. 525-532. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• 2000 Are affixes signs: The semantic relationships of English derivational affixes. Morphological Analysis in Comparison. W. U. Dressler, O. E. Pfeiffer, M. A. Pöchtrager, & J. R. Rennison eds. John Benjamins.
• 1998 Semantic Fields and Vectors of Meaning (with Keith Lehrer) Lexical Semantics, Cognition, and Philosophy, B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, ed. Lodz: Lodz University Press.
• 1995 Prefixes in English Word Formation. Folia Linguistica 29.1-2: 133-148.
• 1994 Networks, fields, and vectors (with K. Lehrer). Grammar and Meaning: Essays in honor of Sir John Lyons, F. Palmer, ed., pp. 26-47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1993 Semantic Fields and Frames: Are They Alternatives? In Studien zur Wortfeldtheorie, Peter Lutzeier, ed. pp. 149-162. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
• 1985 The Influence of Semantic Fields on Semantic Change. In Historical semantics historical word formation, Jacek Fisiak, ed. pp. 283-296. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Name and naming

• 2005 Proper Names, semantic aspects. Logical and Lexical Semantics, Elsevier
• 1992 Names and naming: Why we need fields and frames. In Frames, Fields, and Contrasts, A. Lehrer and E. V. Kittay, eds. Hillsdales, NJ: Erlbaum.
• 1992 Principles and problems in translating proper names. In Translation and Meaning, Part 2, B. Lewendowka-Tomaszczyk and M. Thelan, eds. Maastrict: Rijkshoge-school Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.

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Reported speech

• 1994 Understanding classroom lectures. Discourse Processes 17: 259-282.
• 1994 Checklist for verbs of speaking. Metapragmatics, F. Kiefer and J. Verscheuren, eds. Also an issue of Acta Linguistica 39.
• 1992 The (in)accuracy of quotations. Editor and Publisher 125.3: 44, 30-31. Reprinted in Richard Ambacher, Semantics: Arriving at Meaning, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

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Other

• 1992 Blocking and the principle of conventionality. Proceedings of the WECOL Conference, October, 1992, Tucson, AZ.
• 1992 A theory of vocabulary structure: retrospectives and prospectives. In Festschrift for René Dirvin. Martin, Pütz, ed.
• 1991 Componential analysis. In Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
• 1990 Impersonal uses of personal pronouns (with Chisato Kitagawa), Journal of Pragmatics 14: 739-759.