Part 1: what is a word? methods in lexicology - the dictionary methods in lexicology - the thesaurus history of lexicology - India, China, the Islamic World, Europe evolution of the dictionary and thesaurus in England recent developments in lexicology sources and resources. Part 2: etymology prescription grammar, syntax and lexicogrammar semantics language and reality language and society language and cognition language and computation language and languages translation. Part 3: corpus linguistics as a theoretical approach corpus typology corpus linguistics and language the minimal assumption postulate research and development corpus semantics multilingual semantics multilingual corpus semantics applying multilingual corpus semantics semantics and the multilingual corpus.