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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eckardt, Regine, Heusinger, Klaus von, Schwarze, Christoph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 143.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Historical linguistics as a transdisciplinary field of research; A. Changing believes, diversifying worlds, and flexible meanings; Words and concepts in time: Towards diachronic cognitive onomasiology; The semantic structure of lexical fields: Variation and change; khalîfa
  • A word study; Words in discourse
  • On the diachronic lexical semantics of discours; B. The meaning of meaning change; Theoretical concepts in flux: Conceptual knowledge and theory change; Meaning change as character change; Meaning change in conceptual Montague semantics; C. The force of grammar
  • Tense in time: The Greek perfectLight verbs in Urdu and grammaticalization; Bilingualism and linguistic interference in the Slavic-Romance contact area of Molise (Southern Italy); Lexical-grammatical variation and development: The use of conjunctions as discourse markers in everyday spoken German; Subject index; Author index