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English Historical Semantics (Paperback)
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English Historical Semantics (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - A...
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Providing an ideal introduction to historical semantics, this book
offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in
linguistics and English Language an accessible overview of the
structural and cognitive approaches to English historical
semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of
word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer
two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages
change. Considering changes both in the meanings of individual word
forms and in larger areas of the lexicon, English Historical
Semantics illustrates how data can be found and analysed, and
explores how Lexical Semantics interacts with other areas of
linguistics. In particular, the book describes in detail two of the
most significant resources in this field: the Oxford English
Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English
Dictionary. By using empirical data to study historical semantics,
the book provides students with essential tools to investigate new
words entering the language, and to study language change. With
extended case studies including colour and kinship terms,
suggestions for further reading, and exercises designed to
stimulate reflection and test understanding, this textbook is an
invaluable resource and practical guide designed to help students
navigate this large and fascinating field.
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