Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the third Chinese edition; Preface to the first Chinese edition; Preface to the revised Chinese edition; 1 Vocabulary revisited; 2 Words and semantic morphemes; 3 The emergence and structural forms of words; 4 Word meaning; 5 Word meaning clustering; 6 The evolution of word meaning and its laws; 7 Exploring the dynamic form of vocabulary; References; Index