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Current Methods in Historical Semantics.

Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across t...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Allan, Kathryn
Autres auteurs: Robinson, Justyna A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Collection:Topics in English linguistics ; 73.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface; Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics; Section 1: Data and sources; Using OED data as evidence; Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED; The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-going change; Commentary; Section 2: Corpus-based methods; How anger rose: Hypothesis testing in diachronic semantics; Diachronic collostructional analysis: How to use it and how to deal with confounding factors; Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis; Commentary; Section 3: Theoretical Approaches.
  • A sociolinguistic perspective on semantic changeA pragmatic approach to historical semantics, with special reference to markers of clausal negation in Medieval French; The pervasiveness of contiguity and metonymy in semantic change; A cognitive approach to the methodology of semantic reconstruction: The case of English chin and knee; Commentary; Subject index; Index of word forms and concepts.