About the Author

Howard Jackson is Professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Central England, UK, where he has taught descriptive linguistics for the past thirty years. His publications include:

Lexicography: An Introduction (in press, 2002)
Words, Meaning and Vocabulary (with Etienne Zé Amvela, Cassell, 2000)
Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language (with Peter Stockwell, Stanley
Thornes, 1996)
Grammar and Meaning (Longman, 1990)
Words and their Meaning (Longman, 1988)
Discovering Grammar (Pergamon Press, 1985)
Analyzing English (Pergamon Press, 1982)