Words in time : diachronic semantics from different points of view /
Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. The collection focuses on meaning change as a topic of interdisciplinary research. Distinguished scholars in diachronic semantics, general linguistics, classical philology, philosophy of language,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2003.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
143. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. The collection focuses on meaning change as a topic of interdisciplinary research. Distinguished scholars in diachronic semantics, general linguistics, classical philology, philosophy of language, anthropology and history offer in depth studies of language internal and external factors of meaning change. This broad range of perspectives, unprecedented in research publications of recent years, is a pioneering attempt to mirror the multi-facetteous nature of language as a formal, social, cogni. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 415 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9783110899979 3110899973 |