Lexikologie der deutschen Gegenwartssprache

This introduction to the lexicology of present-day German deals with all the major aspects of this linguistic disciplin - the nature of the word as a linguistic unit, problems of word definition, word formation and word meaning, structure of the lexicon and lexico-semantic relations in texts and in the language system, the social stratification of vocabulary and reasons for changes within it, the emergence of neologisms, the adoption of foreign words and the phenomenon of obsolescence. Research approaches applied by different schools of linguistic thought are described in the process.