Previously Babies' Names and now reissued, an A-Z of Baby Names provides the meanings and origins for over 2,500 first names. Including traditional and modern names, plus lists of themed names, lists of most popular names by year, and advice on creating a name, this guide contains all you need to ch[...]
In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions [...]