02417nam 2200577 450 991082094010332120230807205819.00-7486-4479-210.1515/9780748644797(CKB)3710000000561682(EBL)4306092(SSID)ssj0001636670(PQKBManifestationID)16394704(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001636670(PQKBWorkID)14955767(PQKB)10153491(MiAaPQ)EBC4306092(DE-B1597)619472(DE-B1597)9780748644797(OCoLC)1306539083(EXLCZ)99371000000056168220160120h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish historical semantics /Christian Kay and Kathryn AllanEdinburgh. [Scotland] :Edinburgh University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (219 p.)Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - AdvancedDescription based upon print version of record.1-4744-0912-1 0-7486-4478-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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. .Edinburgh textbooks on the English language.Advanced.English languageSemantics, HistoricalEnglish languageSemantics, Historical.422Kay Christian385515Allan KathrynMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820940103321English historical semantics1668336UNINA