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Kay Christian |
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Titolo |
English historical semantics / / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan |
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Edinburgh. [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Semantics, Historical |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. . |
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