Lexicology, semantics, and lexicography : selected papers from the fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998 /
The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable...
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 194. |
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Table of Contents:
- LEXICOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC Data; Contents; Introduction; G L Brook: 1910-1987; List of Contributors; Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change; Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy?; Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model?; Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet?; Strange Linguists: The Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition; Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation; Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture.