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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in
near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based
approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered
subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most
studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of
near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic
evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the
aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the
history of American English from the understudied semantic domain
of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and
sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range
of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic
ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy
for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various
univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it
possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the
near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical
structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic
development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to
now been relatively disregarded.
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