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## An overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics 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. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. Students will become proficient in the key concepts in semantic change by applying ideas from theoretical semantics to historical data. They will also cover recent work at the intersections between historical semantics and other disciplines. * Focuses primarily on Lexical Semantics – the study of word meaning * Offers a solid grounding in the basic methodology for corpus data analysis * Features extended case studies on colour and kinship terms * Includes exercises and suggestions for further reading in every chapter

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Author

Christian Kay, Kathryn L Allan, Kathryn L. Allan

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474409124

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Historical Fiction, Language Learning