A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics, Band 141Javier E. Díaz Vera Rodopi, 2002 - 610 Seiten From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words. - Paivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns. - Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and polysemy in Old English." |
Inhalt
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Some issues in the | 109 |
Contexts for a | 136 |
The origin of 17th century canting terms | 163 |
On the evolution of the field | 229 |
A semantic analysis of FEAR GRIEF and ANGER | 255 |
The evolution of the lexical and conceptual | 275 |
Words for MAN in the transmission of Piers Plowman | 375 |
Diachronic wordformation and studying changes in | 410 |
The cognitive etymological search for lexical traces | 438 |
Its concept and usability | 464 |
Words of EMOTION in Old and Middle English | 484 |
Studying lexical borrowings | 500 |
A corpus study from 1500 to 1710 | 539 |
A historical journey through | 563 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjectival passive adjective alliterative analysis anger Anglo-Saxon animacy animate auxiliary become borrowings cant century cognitive concept construction context corpora CPRIV definition derived diachronic dialect Early Middle English Early Modern English EModE emotion English language English texts English words epistemic example Faber and Mairal French frequency function grammar Helsinki Corpus hierarchy historical linguistics Historical Thesaurus horse Juan Gabriel Lakoff language Latin least lexemes lexical field lexicographical lexicology lexicon lexis loanwords London Martín Mingorance meaning Medieval metaphor Middle English period modal ModE morphological noun occur onomasiological Oxford English Dictionary participle patterns PERCEPTION Piers Plowman polysemy pragmatic predicate Present-day English productivity prototypical reference result samples scribes semantic change semantic field sense stative structure subdomain syntactic thesaurus tokens Toronto TOUCHING translation types Vázquez González vocabulary wit EXPRESSION word-formation WSCP þæt þat
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