1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797963703321

Autore

Kay Christian

Titolo

English historical semantics / / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh. [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7486-4479-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Disciplina

422

Soggetti

English language - Semantics, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A brief history of the English lexicon -- 3 Categories of meaning -- 4 Tracing the development of individual words -- 5 How and why words change meaning -- 6 Larger categories -- 7 English colour terms: A case study -- 8 Language and culture -- 9 Metaphor and metonymy -- 10 The big picture and a look ahead -- Glossary of key terms -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. .