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26 | 2026 – Re-thinking frozenness and variability

2026-01-15

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 26^th issue, devoted to “Re-thinking frozenness and variability”, in January 2026.

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Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 26 en janvier 2026. Celui-ci est consacré à la thématique « Vers une rédefinition du (dé)figement ».

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Introduction: Re-thinking frozenness and variability [Full text]

Vincent Hugou and Mathilde Pinson
Introduction : Vers une redéfinition du (dé)figement [Full text]

Vincent Hugou and Mathilde Pinson
Papers

Articles
- The Slot in the System: An empirical case study of the entrenchment of a construct [Full text]
  
  Quentin Feltgen
- Snowclones on Thin Ice: An Empirical Study on Snowclones and Defixed Multiword Expressions [Full text]
  
  Julien Bezançon and Antoine Gautier
- On the frozenness of go wrong pseudo-clefts [Full text]
  
  Marie Dubois-Aumercier and Adeline Terry
- Averbal interactional prefabricated sentences and constructions: looking for variability and frozenness in a constructicon for French [Full text]
  
  Agnès Tutin and Adam Renwick
- Collocations as basic-level categories elaborating slots in semantic frames: A usage-based approach [Full text]
  
  Sonja Poulsen
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- The subsystem of loanwords in English: Properties, categorisation, prototypicity and representation [Full text]
  
  Pierre Fournier
- Differential Effects of Decontextualized, Semi-Contextualized, and Dual-Coding Techniques on Recalling and Retaining of Concrete Vocabulary Items [Full text]
  
  Masoumeh Seyyedrezaei, Mehdi Sarkhosh and Kazhal Abdy

25 | 2025 – Gender and the Lexicon

2025-08-25

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 25^th issue, devoted to “Gender and the lexicon”, in August 2025.

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Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 25 en août 2025. Celui-ci est consacré à la thématique « Genre et lexique ».

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Introduction: Gender and the Lexicon [Full text]

Frédérique Brisset and Corinne Oster
Papers

Articles
- The semantic adventures of woman [Full text]
  
  Ann Coady
- The Pussy Paradox. Exploring the Reappropriation(s) of “Pussy” with the Corpus of Contemporary American English [Full text]
  
  Aure Espilondo
- What do corpora tell us about gender and power? Evidence from idiomatic expressions [Full text]
  
  Yurii Kovaliuk and Myroslava Kovaliuk
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- Testing three theoretical frameworks to account for the stressing of Arabic loanwords in British and American English [Full text]
  
  Pierre Fournier
- Shifting interpretations: Count and mass in linguistic categorization [Full text]
  
  Kurt Erbach

Words about #1 | 2025 – The words about Memory

2025-01-30

Introduction: Words about Memory [Full text]

Frank Arnould, Stéphanie Béligon and Céline Souchay
Papers

Articles
- CogMemo: a standardized, structured and formalized terminological repository on human memory [Full text]
  
  Frank Arnould
- Take a trip down memory lane : une approche contrastive des métaphores de la mémoire [Full text]
  
  Rémi Digonnet
- The conceptual metaphors of memory: Cases of interdomanial nomadism from computer science to quantum computing [Full text]
  
  Charlène Meyers
- Memory in the signifying body. An insight into lexicon from different sign languages [Full text]
  
  Maria T. De Monte
- Crossing thresholds: the lexicalization and performance of memory in early imperial funerary inscriptions from Sicily [Full text]
  
  Victoria Beatrix Fendel
- Spiritual and Medical Dimensions of the Language of Memory in Middle English Texts [Full text]
  
  Natalia Cziganj
- Quand l’écriture entre dans le quotidien : les mots de la mémoire dans les livres de raison (Provence, fin xv^e-xviii^e siècles) [Full text]
  
  Isabelle Luciani
- Trends in philosophy of memory: A quantitative approach [Full text]
  
  Kourken Michaelian, Shin Sakuragi and Vilius Dranseika
- The psychoanalytical investigation of memory: a subversion of subjectivity [Full text]
  
  Julien Alliot
- A lover’s dictionary of Kathleen Raine [Full text]
  
  Claire Garnier-Tardieu

Special issue 3 | 2024 – The Impact of Multilingualism on the Vocabulary and Stylistics of Medieval English

2024-10-17

Introduction [Full text]

Richard Dance, Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Louise Sylvester
Papers

Articles
- Trends in the development of vocabulary for emotion and cognition in English: A millennial perspective [Full text]
  
  Kateryna Krykoniuk and Sara M. Pons-Sanz
- Loanwords and polysemy: An investigation of specialized domain lexis in Middle English [Full text]
  
  Richard Ingham
- Lexicalization, polysemy and loanwords in anger: A comparison with non-affective domains in Middle English [Full text]
  
  Louise Sylvester and Megan Tiddeman
- The church and the manor: Assessing and comparing the effects of language contact on two Middle English lexical domains [Full text]
  
  Gloria Mambelli and Johanna Vogelsanger
- Social ties and negotiation of lexical norms in Old English: The vocabularies of vices [Full text]
  
  Olga Timofeeva and Christine Wallis
- Revising Layamon: The Otho scribe and his French additions [Full text]
  
  Max Fincher
- Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536 [Full text]
  
  Christine Wallis, Annina Seiler and Heather Pagan

24 | 2024 – The birth and propagation of Phraseological Units

2024-09-25

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 24^th issue, devoted to “The birth and propagation of Phraseological Units”, in 2024.

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Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 24 en 2024. Celui-ci est consacré à la thématique « Naissance et propagation des unités phraséologiques ».

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Introduction: the birth and propagation of phraseological units [Full text]

Damien Villers
Papers

Articles
- “The Making of Strange Bedfellows”. A Shakespeare Quotation and Its Propagation of New Proverbs [Full text]
  
  Wolfgang Mieder
- Quelques remarques sur l’origine des proverbes [Full text]
  
  Jean-Claude Anscombre
- It’s not rocket science: on the birth and propagation of the idiom [Full text]
  
  Tamara N. Janevska
- Répétition, analogie et variation lexicale comme sources des binômes phraséologiques en anglais [Full text]
  
  Ramón Martí Solano
- Phrasemes as prototypical linguistic micro-representations of the world: the role of values in the propagation of Winged Words [Full text]
  
  Julian Schütz
- Celebrating diversity: The origins and pathways of three support-verb constructions [Full text]
  
  Victoria Beatrix Fendel
- “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” Internet memes as a medium of propagation of unconventional phraseological replies [Full text]
  
  Matej Meterc

23 | 2024 – The Phonology-Lexicology interface

2024-04-25

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 23^rd issue devoted to “The Phonology-Lexicology interface”.

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 23. Celui-ci est consacré à la thématique « À l'interface de la phonologie et de la lexicologie ».

Introduction: The Phonology-Lexicon Interface [Full text]

Christophe Coupé, Quentin Dabouis, Olivier Glain and Vincent Hugou
Papers

Articles
- The impact of source languages on the stressing of loanwords in English [Full text]
  
  Pierre Fournier
- Phonological templates and the lexicon [Full text]
  
  Semra Baturay-Meral
- Groaning and grunting: Investigating sound correspondences in the English lexicon [Full text]
  
  Mael Farina
- Rah-rah! Investigating the variation in phonosemantic motivation in a set of iconic nouns expressing the concept <enthusiasm energy vitality>. A diachronic semantic approach [Full text]
  
  Chris A. Smith
- What a difference a digraph made: phonetic spelling and the assimilation of the word “armada” in Early Modern English [Full text]
  
  Laetitia Sansonetti

22 | 2023 – Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization

2023-12-29

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 22^nd issue, devoted to “Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization”, in 2023.

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 22 en 2023. Celui-ci est consacré à « Marges et frontières dans la catégorisation linguistique ».

Introduction: Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization [Full text]

Romain Delhem and Caroline Marty
Papers

Articles
- Comment ne pas être très intrigué par ce phénomène ? Réexamen de la porosité entre participe passé verbal et adjectival [Full text]
  
  Vincent Hugou and Mathilde Pinson
- Nominalisation of phrasal verbs in the -ing forms with a plural marker (goings-on, coming outs): a study of nominal characteristics [Full text]
  
  Marie Turlais
- Category membership and category potential: The case of vague because [Full text]
  
  Martin Konvička
- Catégorisation et vocabulaire spécialisé : enquête sur les dénominations de mouvements sportifs [Full text]
  
  Angelina Aleksandrova

21 | 2023 – The lexicon and pragmatics

2023-11-13

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 21^st issue, devoted to “The lexicon and pragmatics”, in 2023.

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 21 en 2023. Celui-ci est consacré à « Lexique et pragmatique ».

Introduction: The lexicon and pragmatics [Full text]

Olivier Simonin
Papers

Articles
- Axiological connotation and the semantic-pragmatic distinction [Full text]
  
  Anouch Bourmayan
- The real polysemous meaning of real: a study in lexical pragmatics [Full text]
  
  Olivier Simonin and Sarah Bourse
- A morphopragmatic study of [X-word] constructions through their morphological replicability and pragmatic functions [Full text]
  
  José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo
- Contextual information in the dictionary: A critical approach of the additional example feature in online monolingual English dictionaries with a focus on translators’ needs [Full text]
  
  Amélie Josselin-Leray
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- Applying Classification Trees to Stress Patterns of Japanese Loanwords in English [Full text]
  
  Bradley Lunsford

20 | 2022 – Proper names and the lexicon

2022-12-28

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 20^th issue, devoted to “Proper names and the lexicon”, in December 2022.

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 20 en décembre 2022. Celui-ci est consacré aux « noms propres et lexique ».

Introduction: Proper names and the lexicon – an exposition [Full text]

Élise Mignot and Manon Philippe
Papers

Articles
- Configuration morpho-lexicale du nom propre et propension à la lexicalisation [Full text]
  
  Montserrat Rangel Vicente
- How proper names enter the lexicon – From the Central Intelligence Agency to CIA: the reduction of full denominative expressions interpreted as a means to achieve (greater) lexicalization [Full text]
  
  Manon Philippe and Élise Mignot
- Metaphor, metonymy and the nounness of proper names [Full text]
  
  Pierre J.L. Arnaud
- What can Verbal Derivation Tell us about Proper Names? [Full text]
  
  Aurélie Héois
- From proper name to epithet: motivation and change in the fashion industry [Full text]
  
  Silvia Cacchiani
- Quand le nom propre devient une particule élémentaire de la matière : étude contrastive des éponymes Higgs boson et boson de Higgs et de leurs substituts dans des textes spécialisés et vulgarisés [Full text]
  
  Tiffany Jandrain
- Nom propre et désignateur rigide : la traduisibilité de l’onomastique au prisme du cinéma [Full text]
  
  Frédérique Brisset
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- Making metaphor studies less WEIRD. The methodological benefits and challenges of a greater diversity of languages and cultures in the study of metaphor [Full text]
  
  Simon Devylder
- The history, linguistic status and potential of the term dramway [Full text]
  
  Richard Coates
- Context concreteness for the second constituent slows down compound-word processing [Full text]
  
  Chariton Charitonidis

19 | 2022 – Phraseology and Paremiology in English

2022-06-01

Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 19^th issue, devoted to “Phraseology and Paremiology in English”, in 2022.

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Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology a mis en ligne son numéro 19 en 2022. Celui-ci est consacré à la « phraséologie et parémiologie de l'anglais ».

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Introduction [Full text]

Ramón Martí Solano and Aleš Klégr
Papers

Articles
- Multi-word units (and tokenization more generally): a multi-dimensional and largely information-theoretic approach [Full text]
  
  Stefan Th. Gries
- You are driving me up the wall! A corpus-based study of a special class of resultative constructions [Full text]
  
  Gloria Corpas Pastor
- Idiom modifications: What grammar reveals about conceptual structure [Full text]
  
  Jelena Parizoska
- Motivated patterns of phrasal verbs and learner’s dictionaries [Full text]
  
  Thomai Dalpanagioti
- What makes a good proverb? On the birth and propagation of proverbs [Full text]
  
  Damien Villers
List of references [Full text]

Ramón Martí Solano and Aleš Klégr
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- English adjectives of very similar meaning used in combination: an exploratory, corpus-aided study [Full text]
  
  Stephen James Coffey