English historical semantics / / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan
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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.: | 9910820940103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. . -Advanced.