Lexicology & Lexicography Seminar

1. Analyze the senses of the word school in the following sentences.

Is there an internally structured set of links that connect all of them?
Draw up a radial network of the different senses of school.

(1) Is there a school nearby?

(2) School begins at 9 a.m.
(3) The school is going to the British Museum tomorrow.
(4) We must hand in the geography project to the school in May.
(5) At 18 she went to law school.
(6) Where is the summer school on linguistics to be held?
(7) Van Gogh belongs to the Impressionist school.
(8) There are two schools of thought on drinking red wine with fish.
(9) A school of whales followed the boat.
(10) Has he finished school?
(11) We weren’t allowed to keep pets at school.
(12) The school disclaimed any responsibility for his death.
(13) Charlotte and Luke were not old enough for school.
(14) He may be shy and intimidated by school.
(15) She had to stay off school for two or three weeks.
(16) The report described him as one of the' old school' of army commanders.
(17) Keane has become a highly visible proponent of the Disney school of animation.
(18) Butch Harmon runs a school of golf in Houston.
(19) The Hague school of artists was rife with theories about “pure” art.
(20) He's managed to get himself sacked from the Shakespeare School of English.
(21) The swordfish will follow a school of fish before it decides to attack.
(22) She left school at the age of 14.
(23) The school was burned down.
(24) I'd pay off the school fees first if I were you.
(25) The school was very good at cricket but Ramsey was not.
(26) How was the school to be organized?
(27) She left school at 4 p.m.

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2. Consider how many distinct meanings of collect are represented in the following.
How would you organize them in a dictionary entry? Compare your results with the
treatment given in one or more standard dictionaries.
(a) The books collected dust.
(b) He collects stamps.
(c) The postman collects the mail every day.
(d) She collected her things and left.
(e) She sat down to collect her thoughts.
(f) She collects the children from school at 4 o’clock.
(g) Dust collects on the books.
(h) The students collected in front of the notice board.
(i) They are collecting for Oxfam.
(j) He collects his pension on Thursdays.
(k) The dustmen collect the garbage on Wednesdays.
(l) She collected two gold medals in Tokyo.
(m) They collected rainwater in a bucket.
(n) They collected the rent once a fortnight.
(o) He will collect quite a lot on his accident insurance.

3. Draw up a radial network for the different senses of paper.

(a) The letter was written on good quality paper.

(b) I need this quotation on paper.
(c) The police officer asked to see my car papers.
(d) The examination consisted of two 3 hour papers.
(e) The professor is due to give his paper at 4 o’clock.
(f) Seat sales are down, so we’ll have to paper the house this afternoon.
(Theatrical slang: ‘to give away free tickets to fill the auditorium’)