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Autore: |
Kay Christian
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Titolo: |
English historical semantics / / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan
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Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh. [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Disciplina: | 422 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - Semantics, Historical |
Persona (resp. second.): | AllanKathryn |
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. . |
Titolo autorizzato: | English historical semantics ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7486-4479-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797963703321 |
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